How can I access a docker container direct from host

[meyay (Metin Y.)]

Small addition to @rimelek’s post:

Please read this post to get a better understanding of what should be in the same container or separated into different containers:

Ubuntu Julia Fortran container programming

Rule of thumb for application containers: processes that can communicate over the network and can run on their own, should be in separate containers (using separate images). It’s a whole different thing with tooling containers: the image should already include everything required to perform all the tasks it should do, except the code itself, as it’s either cloned from a git repository, or bind mounted from the host into the container Images for ci/cd pipelines can be more specialized, as jobs …

Update:
I think the confusion comes from how the Dockerfile works. Is it safe to assume that you expect the three stages to be merged into the final image? Unfortunately this is not how it works.

It looks like you try to do a multi-stage build, but end up without an image hierarchy or copying artifacts from previous stages.

See docs for multi-stage builds:

Multi-stage