I’m trying to understand the behavior of the docker.for.mac.localhost pseudo-dns entry in Docker for Mac as part of deploying OpenWhisk with a local CouchDB instance on my Mac. (Caveat – yes, I could try to run CouchDB in the docker-verse, but that really isn’t a good long-term plan.) So, here’s t…

Understanding the 'docker.for.mac.localhost' behavior

egawrilow (Ewgenij Gawrilow) December 14, 2017, 8:33am 3

One more hypothesis: the setting “Docker subnet” on the “Advanced” preferences tab seems to have magic influence on docker.for.mac.localhost resolution. It properly works when you enter 192.168.65.0 there.

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Understanding the 'docker.for.mac.localhost' behavior

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