Docker localhost process not working on Windows - windows

I am using Docker Quickstart Terminal to run a docker container. The container should work on port 8088 of localhost:
docker run -it --name myContainer -p 8088:8088
However, when I go to localhost:8088 or 127.0.0.1:8088 I can't find any process running.
This works on OSX.
Why is this not working on Windows?

I'm assuming you're using VirtualBox, since that's what is integrated with the Quickstart terminal.
The reason it doesn't work is that Windows isn't running your (Linux) containers natively, it's running them in a separate Linux-based VM. This VM is available under a different ip address than your "physical" machine, usually printed when you start the quickstart terminal:
This is the ip address you need to use in order to connect to published container ports.

One possibility is the kind of VM you are using : HyperV (Docker For Windows) or VirtualBox (Docker Toolbox).
If it is the later (which seems probable since you are using the Docker Quickstart Terminal), you need to port forward 8088 in order for your PC (localhost) to see it.
See "How do I configure docker compose to expose ports correctly?" as an example when using VirtualBox.
If localhost does not work, a docker-machine ip will show you the ip of the VM being executed.

Related

linux container running on windows host -- access to host docker

I have an ubuntu container running on docker for windows. How can I give it access to the docker daemon that is running on my windows host?
Note: I am not trying to run docker-in-docker, i.e., inside my container, docker ps should show containers running on the host machine's docker daemon. If my host machine was running linux, this would be achieved by mounting /var/run/docker.sock inside the container -- is there a similar technique when the host machine runs windows?
This is my docker destkop version: Docker Desktop 4.12.0 (85629) is currently the newest version available.
You can expose the daemon via TCP socket, it's a setting under General

Docker Desktop on Mac issue with ssh to centos container on localhost

I know there are similar questions on the SO but many of the suggestions have not worked for me. I'm running Docker Desktop for Mac and I startup a docker container I've built that has ssh configured and running (I use these to connect to AWS, Azure etc). I startup the container with something like (the ubc/jlbase/jlbase image has ssh configure... and the following all works on a linux machine with docker0 network in place)
docker run -P --name test -d ubc/jlbase/jlbase
docker inspect test |grep IP
ping -c *the_ip_from_above*
does not connect. From what I can find, this is a known issue with Docker on Mac... but the help and links I've found don't seem to solve the problem. Can someone tell me what I've missed?
You can say that this is a know feature of Docker on Mac, not an issue. Docker on Mac is running on a virtual machine inside macOS, so the IP address you receive is the IP of the container inside the VM, not on macOS.
To address the two issues from the question:
How to enable ssh
To be able to ssh on your container, you will need to have the sshd running in the container and to publish the port 22. Check here to see how you can try this with a container that is already prepared
How to ping
Since the docker is running inside a VM, to be able to route traffic to the containers, you will need to setup the network layer to route the traffic. One approach is to create a tunnel between the VM and the machine.
This is much more complex setup and will require a help of a CNF (Conteinerized Network Function). One of the simplest CNF that was created just for this problem is soctun which creates a tunnel between the host and the docker network layer.

default docker-machine ip [duplicate]

I just migrated to using Docker for Mac, from previously using Docker Toolbox with virtualbox for OSX.
I used to get the machine IP address with $(docker-machine ip default).
Is there a reliable way to get the Hyperkit IP address?
Thanks!
In opposition to Docker toolbox, Docker for Windows and Docker for Mac are designed to give you the feeling that Docker is running directly on your OS, so they use lightweight virtual machines running under lightweight hypervisors (instead of VirtualBox) handled directly by the docker executable.
Hence you won't see them with docker-machine and you won't see another IP address than localhost.
Docker for Windows relies on the HyperV hypervisor which allows a network connection to tcp://localhost:2375.
Docker for Mac relies on the xhyve hypervisor, the way it's implemented only provides a connection through the socket unix:///var/run/docker.sock.
Workaround
To provide a TCP connection for Docker for Mac:
Install socat. With brew:
brew install socat
Run this socat command to forward TCP requests to the socket
socat TCP-LISTEN:2375,reuseaddr,fork,bind=localhost UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/docker.sock
Map what you want on tcp://localhost:2375
Up to you to run the socat command on startup, if necessary.
This was for instance useful to me to associate the Webstorm nodeJS debugger to a nodeJS container (since at the time of writing, docker debugging is supported by Webstorm docker integration plugin, but not through unix sockets).
Documentation on Docker for Mac limitations
https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/networking/#/known-limitations-use-cases-and-workarounds
There is no docker0 bridge on macOS
Because of the way networking is implemented in Docker for Mac, you cannot see a docker0 interface in macOS. This interface is actually within HyperKit.
You could use docker image for socat which starts every time you start 'docker for mac'
docker run -d --restart=always -p 2376:2375 -v
/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock bobrik/socat
TCP4-LISTEN:2375,fork,reuseaddr UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/docker.sock
Find your docker API ip address:
ifconfig | grep 'inet 192'| awk '{ print $2}'
There's no need for working with the xhyve VM's IP address directly like you would with docker-machine. All port mappings are directly mapped to localhost.
$ docker run -d -p 8080:80 nginx:latest
$ curl localhost:8080
Also see the official documentation:
When you run a container with the -p argument, for example: $ docker run -p 80:80 -d nginx Docker for Mac will make the container port available at localhost.
My current solution is to create the containers using Docker Machine (A linux VM which is available under another IP address) and route all the traffic of the containers to the docker machine VM.
sudo route -n add -net 172.18.0.0/16 192.168.99.100
You can get the network range of your docker containers using docker inspect and the IP address of your docker machine VM using docker-machine ip
Another workaround is to use sudo ifconfig lo0 alias 172.17.0.1 so you can still use the same static IP address (if your Linux-based colleagues or bash scripts insist on using that).

Not able to access tomcat application on Docker VM with host(windows) IP while using docker toolbox

I am running docker on my windows system using docker toolbox. I ran tomcat container using command docker run -it --rm -p 8888:8080 tomcat:8.0. As per documentation I should be able to access tomcat using http://localhost:8888, but this is not working.
Rather, I can access the tomcat app using docker-machine ip which is http://192.168.99.100:8888.
But this is not what I need. I need to access the tomcat container app from outside my system itself, through the network. So, how do I map tomcat application to my windows host system ?
While googling around, I could see an option of port-forwarding for boot2docker vm. But, again I am not using boot2docker. I am using docker toolbox.
Finally, I was able to find where to add the port-forwarding rule. Open the oracle VirtualBox Manager. Go to Settings-->Network --> Port Forwarding..
Here 1 rule is already available for ssh.
So I added another rule for this with below configurations:
HostIP:HostPort=> 127.0.0.1:9999
GuestIP:GuestPort=> :8888
So now if I invoke http://localhost:9999 , it is forwarded to => docker-machine:8888 and from there it is forwarded to => tomcatVM:8080.
I could see an option of port-forwarding for boot2docker vm. But, again I am not using boot2docker. I am using docker toolbox.
Yes, you are using boot2docker.
Toolbox is just a bundle of boot2docker + docker-machine + kitematic.
Open your VirtualBox, and you will see a VM which, in the storage settings, is based on boot2docker.iso.
See do port-forward 8888 to your host: see "Connect to a Service running inside a docker container from outside"
VBoxManage controlvm "default" natpf1 "tcp-port8888,tcp,,8888,,8888"
VBoxManage controlvm "default" natpf1 "udp-port8888,udp,,8888,,8888"
(Replace default with the name of your docker-machine: see docker-machine ls)

Can't connect to Docker containers on OSX

I'm new to Docker, and I can't seem to connect to any containers.
I installed Docker Toolbox. Now I'm trying to get Shipyard to work. I followed the steps inside of a Docker Quickstart Terminal. The instructions say:
Once deployed, the script will output the URL to connect along with credential information.
The Shipyard installer ended with:
Shipyard available at http://10.0.2.15:8080
Username: [elided] Password: [elided]
However, I went to http://10.0.2.15:8080 on my browser and it didn't connect.
In another Docker Quickstart Terminal, I did a docker ps to see what the container was and to get its IP Address and I got:
$ docker inspect a4755 | grep IPAddress
"SecondaryIPAddresses": null,
"IPAddress": "172.17.0.8",
"IPAddress": "172.17.0.8",
I'm not sure why the IP was different, but I tried to connect to http://172.17.0.8:8080 and this didn't work either. http://localhost:8080 also failed.
This also happened when I tried to run docker-gunicorn-nginx - everything started, but I couldn't connect to the machine.
What gives?
If you read through Docker's Installation on Mac OS X you'll see that on OSX, Docker containers don't run on the host machine itself:
In a Docker installation on Linux, your physical machine is both the localhost and the Docker host. In networking, localhost means your computer. The Docker host is the computer on which the containers run.
On a typical Linux installation, the Docker client, the Docker daemon, and any containers run directly on your localhost. This means you can address ports on a Docker container using standard localhost addressing such as localhost:8000 or 0.0.0.0:8376.
[...]
In an OS X installation, the docker daemon is running inside a Linux VM called default. The default is a lightweight Linux VM made specifically to run the Docker daemon on Mac OS X. The VM runs completely from RAM, is a small ~24MB download, and boots in approximately 5s.
In OS X, the Docker host address is the address of the Linux VM. When you start the VM with docker-machine it is assigned an IP address. When you start a container, the ports on a container map to ports on the VM. To see this in practice, work through the exercises on this page.
Indeed, opening a new Docker Quickstart Terminal, I see:
docker is configured to use the default machine with IP 192.168.99.100
And, opening http://192.168.99.100:8080 takes me to Shipyard. Success!
You can try and execute this command:
docker-machine ip default
it will return some thing like:
192.168.99.100
To get port number:
docker ps
Example output (scroll right to see port mapping):
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
113346425f20 springio/spring1 "sh -c 'java $JAVA_OP" 34 minutes ago Up 34 minutes 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp pensive_kirch
To verify if it is working do:
curl 192.168.99.100:8080

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