This is for development purpose and will not work in a production environment outside of Docker Desktop for Windows. PING (192.168.65.2 ): 56 data bytesĦ4 bytes from 192.168.65.2: seq = 0 ttl = 37 time =3.075 msĦ4 bytes from 192.168.65.2: seq = 1 ttl = 37 time =0.597 msĭocker for Windows: use ĭocker for Windows have similar solution with Docker for Mac, use .įrom 18.03 onwards our recommendation is to connect to the special DNS name, which resolves to the internal IP address used by the host. can also pass as env var:Ĭontainer # ping This is for development purpose and will not work in a production environment outside of Docker Desktop for Mac. Which resolves to the internal IP address used by the host. Because of that, Docker runs on Mac OS slowly. In addition to this, there is an abstraction layer between Mac OS kernel and applications (Docker containers) and the filesystems are not the same. Therefore, there is a client on Mac OS to run Docker.

The host has a changing IP address (or none if you have no network access).įrom 18.03 onwards our recommendation is to connect to the special DNS name , Unfortunately, Mac OS and Windows cannot provide this. I WANT TO CONNECT FROM A CONTAINER TO A SERVICE ON THE HOST Or you can just use inside docker VM will ok.

Solution Docker for Mac: use įor Docker on Mac, there is a magic ip 192.168.65.2 in docker VM which represent host machine,

I have redis running in localhost, when I run a docker VM, I want to connect redis from inside of Docker VM, so I do not need docker-compose for another redis VM.