What is the portable, recommended way to let a container reach a service that’s listening on the host machine’s localhost?

host.docker.internal domain in Docker Desktop or [image] Host.docker.internal in production environment General Once again a question that inspired me to try something. Actually I have been thinking for a while about trying to implement a feature like the one in Docker de…

How can a Docker container reach a service that’s only listening on localhost of the host machine?

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rimelek (Ákos Takács) May 29, 2025, 7:26pm 2

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How can a Docker container reach a service that’s only listening on localhost of the host machine?

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