Port forwarding in docker-machine?
Since boot2docker
is deprecated I've switched to docker-machine
but I don't know how to open a port from docker-machine
. In boot2docker
I could do like this:
boot2docker ssh -L 27017:localhost:27017
This would forward port 27017 from VirtualBox to localhost 27017 as long as the SSH connection is open. Note that I'm not looking for a way to open the port permanently in VirtualBox. How can I achieve this with docker-machine
?
You can still access the VBoxmanage.exe command from the VirtualBox used by docker machine:
VBoxManage controlvm "boot2docker-vm" natpf1 "tcp-port27017,tcp,,27017,,27017";
- Use
docker-machine info
to get the name of your vm. - use
modifyvm
if the vm isn't started yet.
See a practical example in this answer.
That is the current workaround, pending the possibility to pass argument to docker-machine ssh
: see issue 691.
The other workaround is to not forward port, and use directly the IP of the VM:
$(docker-machine ip default)
As commented by sdc:
You can confirm that port forwarding is set up correctly with
VBoxManage showvminfo boot2docker-vm | grep "NIC.* Rule"
With recent versions of machine, you can simply do (where default is the name of the machine):
docker-machine ssh default -L 27017:localhost:27017
This is a more temporary solution than the VM configuration change.
Use the following variation to only forward ports in a background process:
docker-machine ssh default -f -N -L 27017:localhost:27017
- -f Requests ssh to go to background just before command execution.
- -N Allow empty command (useful here to forward ports only)
You can ssh into the machine and pass on the regular port forwarding arguments:
ssh docker@$(docker-machine ip default) -L 27017:localhost:27017
The password of the docker user is tcuser. (see https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker)