Connecting to a local domain

[matdave]

I have an API project that I run locally using DDEV (Docker + Traefik) to route communications to e.g. api1.matdave.local and api2.matdave.local

Is there a way I can route those domains to be accessible from a microsandbox? I am able to connect to host.microsandbox.internal, but I'm not sure if/how I could connect my node environment running under microsandbox to the other internal domains on my host.

[toksdotdev]

hey @matdave,

yep, this should be possible. inside the sandbox, add your domains to the existing host.microsandbox.internal entries in /etc/hosts. for example:

172.16.0.5 host.microsandbox.internal api1.matdave.local api2.matdave.local
fd42:6d73:62:1::1 host.microsandbox.internal api1.matdave.local api2.matdave.local

your node app can then use the original urls, and traefik should route them to the right project. for https, you’ll also need to make node trust your ddev development ca.

we could make this easier to configure too. do those domains resolve through /etc/hosts or a local dns server on your host? and would you want to configure a few specific domains, or have any domain that works on your host work inside the sandbox automatically?

[matdave]

ddev updates my /etc/hosts when I turn it on, so in an ideal world it could discover from that. Though I'm not against adjusting the config. I'm not root while in my container, so was hoping for a configuration option rather than coming up with a messy script on runtime.

[toksdotdev]

oh, i think i get what you mean now. basically, if there's an host alias for localhost on the host, that should automatically be resolve-able by the VM?

[matdave]

Yeah, that would be a definite nice to have. Might be a job for socat

[toksdotdev]

quick update on this. i expect to have a pr up for this sometime this week.