is there a way for OpenShift running on an OS X host to see the pod IPs created via docker (using boot2docker)?

[jstrachan]

So I can build OpenShift on my OS X box and run the integration tests (hack/test-cmd.sh) and things work pretty well; docker images, pods, services, replication controllers are all created etc. Yay! :)

However I get output like this in the openshift console: #180 (comment) since the host cannot ping the pod's IP (though I can ping it from inside boot2docker).

I wonder if we can figure out a way of making some kind of network on OS X (or IP address range configuration) so we can see pod IP addresses when running on platforms like OS X; then from the host we'd be able to see the pod IPs addresses (and it'd avoid those errors in the OpenShift console).

I'm thinking here of developers who want to just develop on their host and work with a stand alone OpenShift directly

[jstrachan]

aha - @paoloantinori figured this out for me - yay!

On a mac you need to add this, where 192.168.59.103 is the value of "boot2docker ip"

 sudo route -n add  172.17.0.0/16 192.168.59.103

I can now ping the pod IPs from my host!

[jstrachan]

I can correctly see the guestbook PHP app at dockerhost:8000 too on my mac so its working nicely!

[VojtechVitek]

Thanks for sharing the route solution! I'm glad it works for you now.

[jstrachan]

Incidentally @paoloantinori figured out more networking tricks when working on OS X; so now the host and boot2docker can access all the pod IP addresses and ports directly.

Here's a little wiki page describing how it all works or you can grab the source if you want to reuse any in openshift.

[VojtechVitek]

Nice! You might consider creating a PR against https://github.com/openshift/origin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.adoc#develop-locally-on-your-host or against kubernetes.