I know this question sound as a repeat question, but I couldn't find other that suit to my requirement. So I just started to use docker for developing tomcat app.
After installing docker in Ubuntu 16 inside VMWare Workstation, and downloading tomcat-docker image, I want to start the tomcat container using START command instead of RUN.
I use START command because I don't want to stuck within STDOUT, and able to continue using Linux command line. So I start the container by using below command
$ docker start name_of_container
Then I issue inspect command
$ docker inspect name_of_container
I manage to see that my tomcat instance is using ip: 172.17.0.2. So I did curl like:
$ curl 172.17.0.2:8080 | head
And I got my HEAD tags printed perfectly, which means that I successfully instantiate my tomcat.
My question is: how can I access my tomcat from my browser in Windows? how can I create a port forwarding in VMWare to enable me to access ip 172.17.0.2??
Thanks
If using docker create to create the container, specify the ports to publish to the host with --publish:
docker create --publish 8080:8080 --name my-tomcat tomcat
You can then start with:
docker start my-tomcat
Port 8080 on your host will now send traffic to port 8080 of your container.
You should be able to reach http://ip-of-vm:8080 in your browser.