How to get the IP address of the docker host from inside a docker container

Question

As the title says. I need to be able to retrieve the IP address the docker hosts and the portmaps from the host to the container, and doing that inside of the container.

Answer 1

In linux you can run

HOST_IP=`hostname -I | awk '{print $1}'`

In macOS your host machine is not the Docker host. Docker will install it's host OS in VirtualBox.

HOST_IP=`docker run busybox ping -c 1 docker.for.mac.localhost | awk 'FNR==2 {print $4}' | sed s'/.$//'`