How to access host port from docker container [duplicate]

For all platforms Docker v 20.10 and above (since December 14th 2020) On Linux, add –add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway to your Docker command to enable this feature. (See below for Docker Compose configuration.) Use your internal IP address or connect to the special DNS name host.docker.internal which will resolve to the internal IP address used by the host. … Read more

Java using much more memory than heap size (or size correctly Docker memory limit)

Virtual memory used by a Java process extends far beyond just Java Heap. You know, JVM includes many subsytems: Garbage Collector, Class Loading, JIT compilers etc., and all these subsystems require certain amount of RAM to function. JVM is not the only consumer of RAM. Native libraries (including standard Java Class Library) may also allocate … Read more

How to include files outside of Docker’s build context?

The best way to work around this is to specify the Dockerfile independently of the build context, using -f. For instance, this command will give the ADD command access to anything in your current directory. docker build -f docker-files/Dockerfile . Update: Docker now allows having the Dockerfile outside the build context (fixed in 18.03.0-ce). So … Read more

Deploying a minimal flask app in docker – server connection issues

The problem is you are only binding to the localhost interface, you should be binding to 0.0.0.0 if you want the container to be accessible from outside. If you change: if __name__ == ‘__main__’: app.run() to if __name__ == ‘__main__’: app.run(host=”0.0.0.0″) It should work. Note that this will bind to all interfaces on the host, … Read more

Docker: Copying files from Docker container to host

In order to copy a file from a container to the host, you can use the command docker cp <containerId>:/file/path/within/container /host/path/target Here’s an example: $ sudo docker cp goofy_roentgen:/out_read.jpg . Here goofy_roentgen is the container name I got from the following command: $ sudo docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 1b4ad9311e93 … Read more