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

This is a minimalistic implementation in Node.js for who is running the host on AWS EC2 instances, using the afore mentioned EC2 Metadata instance

const cp = require('child_process');
const ec2 = function (callback) {
    const URL = 'http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4';
    // we make it silent and timeout to 1 sec
    const args = [URL, '-s', '--max-time', '1'];
    const opts = {};
    cp.execFile('curl', args, opts, (error, stdout) => {
        if (error) return callback(new Error('ec2 ip error'));
        else return callback(null, stdout);
    })
        .on('error', (error) => callback(new Error('ec2 ip error')));
}//ec2

and used as

ec2(function(err, ip) {
        if(err) console.log(err)
        else console.log(ip);
    })