Connect to SQL Server database from a docker container

Question

I have docker for windows installed on my machine. There is a console application targeting .net core 1.0.0 that tries to access a SQL Server database running on a different VM.

Answer 1

You can run a docker container with network settings set to host. Such a container will share the network stack with the docker host and from the container point of view, localhost (or 127.0.0.1) will refer to the docker host.

docker run --net=host ... 

Then you should get the SQL Server database from inside the docker container as you do from your host.