What does address point to?

[matthewmueller]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a network configuration issue on my end, but during local development, container.Address() points to something like: 172.17.0.3, when it should really output 127.0.0.1.

I'm guessing it makes more sense in the context of a CI, but would be great to also be able to use container.Address() locally.

I'm running docker for OSX.

[omeid]

container.Address() points to the docker containers IP address. If you're using docker for OSx, I don't believe it will be directly accessible from your host because the docker instance runs inside a virtual machine. Hope this addresses your question.

[omeid]

Yeah, just checked and the state of Docker for Mac is still the same. Perhaps a link to official docker docs on Docker for Mac Networking is a good idea.

[matthewmueller]

Ah interesting, I wonder if this could be a workaround: docker.for.mac.localhost (not an expert in this area)

[omeid]

I am sorry but adding support for Docker for X would complicate things. If you found a simpler way for supporting docker for mac and the like, please feel free to reopen this issue.