I pulled this SOLR docker image and then followed the instructions to run it.
docker run -d -p 8983:8983 -t makuk66/docker-solr
Typing in docker ps yielded
1197d246f0e3 makuk66/docker-solr:latest "/bin/bash -c '/opt/ 50 minutes ago Up 50 minutes 0.0.0.0:8983->8983/tcp suspicious_sinoussi
So I know it's running.
In order to connect to it I know I can't use localhost because it's running on the virtual machine. So I used ipconfig which yielded:
Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::cd9a:3e57:6d13:de3b%19
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network #2:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::1d62:c4b5:9436:518e%27
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.59.3
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
However when trying to connect to either of these IPs: 192.168.56.1 or 192.168.59.3 with and without the port :8983 specified I get
Google Chrome's connection attempt to 192.168.59.3 was rejected. The website may be down, or your network may not be properly configured.
How can I properly connect to the SOLR process running on docker?
Turns out I was over complicating the debugging. When Boot2Docker first starts up it prints the message:
IP address of docker VM: 192.168.59.103
This IP allows you to access the SOLR instance.
The command:
boot2docker ip
Also lets you know what this IP is.