How to connect to the localhost of the machine from the Docker container

Question

Hi Team,

I have launched one Docker container. I want to connect to the localhost of the machine from the Docker container. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can use --network="host" in your docker run command. It will connect the localhost or 127.0.0.1 in your docker container, will point to your docker host.

$ docker run --rm -it --network=host ubuntu