Vagrant reverse port forwarding?
I'm working on a web services architecture. I've got some software that I need to run on the native host machine, not in Vagrant. But I'd like to run some client services on the guest.
Vagrant's config.vm.forwarded_port parameter will open a port on the host and send the data to the guest. But how can I open a port on the guest and send the data to the host? (It's still port forwarding, but in the reverse direction.)
Answer
When you run vagrant ssh, it's actually using this underlying command:
ssh -p 2222 -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o LogLevel=ERROR -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -i ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key [email protected]
SSH supports forwarding ports in the direction you want with the -R guestport:host:hostport option. So, if you wanted to connect to port 12345 on the guest and have it forwarded to localhost:80, you would use this command:
ssh -p 2222 -R 12345:localhost:80 -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o LogLevel=ERROR -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -i ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key [email protected]
As Eero correctly comments, you can also use the command vagrant ssh -- -R 12345:localhost:80, which has the same effect in a much more concise command.