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Reputation: 4349

Mac: how to remotely access server running inside docker container from other computers?

First I installed boot2docker on OSX 10.10, then I successfully ran a web container. With port redirection configuration, I can browse the web server by localhost:8080 in the browser. Now I want to access the server from other computers, in the same WLAN, by using of url my-mac-ip:8080. I googled over and tried many ways, still not figured out the solution.

I found similar question, but iptables doesn't work for OSX.

I'm new to Docker and I'm not familiar with network configuration, please help me out! Thanks!

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3185

Answers (2)

Mark Rajcok
Mark Rajcok

Reputation: 364677

You can setup temporary port forwarding as follows:

On your Mac:

$ ifconfig | grep 192
    inet 192.168.1.21 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
    inet 192.168.59.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.59.255

$ docker run -d -P --name web nginx
$ docker port web
  443/tcp -> 0.0.0.0:49153
  80/tcp -> 0.0.0.0:49154
$ boot2docker ssh -vnNTL 192.168.1.21:8080:localhost:49154

On a PC or any other device on the same 192.168.1 LAN, you can now access the nginx server with http://192.168.1.21:8080

See also boot2docker workarounds.

Upvotes: 0

joh.scheuer
joh.scheuer

Reputation: 576

This sounds like it isn't a Docker problem because you can access localhost:8080. I think you need to open port 8080 on your laptop to make it possible for others to access it from outside.

To open a port under Max OS X 10.10 foolowd this guide, it describes how to usw pfctl for port forwarding.

Upvotes: 4

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