How to connect to the localhost of the machine from the Docker container

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Hi Team,

I have launched one Docker container. I want to connect to the localhost of the machine from the Docker container. How can I do that?

Dec 23, 2020 in Docker by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

You can use --network="host" in your docker run command. It will connect the localhost or 127.0.0.1 in your docker container, will point to your docker host.

$ docker run --rm -it --network=host ubuntu
answered Dec 23, 2020 by MD
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