How to get IP address of running docker container

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user3067875 picture user3067875 · Apr 29, 2017 · Viewed 225.1k times · Source

I am using Docker for Mac. I am running a nodejs based microservice in a Docker container. I want to test node microservice through the browser. How to get IP address of running docker container?

Answer

OscarAkaElvis picture OscarAkaElvis · Apr 29, 2017

If you don't want to map ports from your host to the container you can access directly to the docker range ip for the container. This range is by default only accessed from your host. You can check your container network data doing:

docker inspect <containerNameOrId>

Probably is better to filter:

docker inspect <containerNameOrId> | grep '"IPAddress"' | head -n 1

Usually, the default docker ip range is 172.17.0.0/16. Your host should be 172.17.0.1 and your first container should be 172.17.0.2 if everything is normal and you didn't specify any special network options.

EDIT Another more elegant way using docker features instead of "bash tricking":

docker inspect -f "{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}" <containerNameOrId>

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