Expected behavior I should have a way to access host machine from within container. Actual behavior Cant figure out how to do that with docker for mac beta Information With the change to all the docker images running on localhost and the ditching of virtualbox (which from what little I understand,…

In case if you just want to reach your host machine as ‘localhost’ add the following option to docker run docker run --add-host="localhost:192.168.65.1" In my case 192.168.65.1 is always the IP to the host ( output of : route | awk '/^default/ { print $2 }' )

Not a helpful question at all. I am trying to do the same thing as original poster.

Building on @mikehaertl ’s response, on OSX, I was able to add an alias for my loopback adapter: sudo ifconfig lo0 alias 172.16.222.111 Then in docker run, I used: --add-host my.private.dnsname.com:172.16.222.111 This workaround enables docker-to-localhost connectivity on OSX’s docker as of 17.06…

You can now do this with docker for mac with docker.for.mac.localhost from Docker for Mac release notes Add an experimental DNS name for the host: docker.for.mac.localhost In my nginx.conf I could reach localhost:8090 on the host machine from within a Docker container with proxy_pass http://d…

There’s also docker.for.win.localhost for Docker for Windows users. What I’d really like though is a method to do this cross-platform - We have Linux and Windows users that use the same docker-compose.yaml - docker.for.win.localhost will mean nothing to half of them. Any suggestions?

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Exactly, so far I am not able to achieve what seems an easy task. The goal beeing avoinding to put the ip in the image.

no network nor hosts are needed. As @rohaq and @kevinpmcc mentioned, for windows : docker.for.win.localhost for mac : docker.for.mac.localhost It works like a charm for me. Thanks @rohaq and @kevinpmcc !

What if your docker works with linux?

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sdetweil (Sam) February 17, 2018, 11:32pm 20

i would use the --add_host parm when u start the container

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Accessing host machine from within docker container

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