I'm new to docker and maybe this is something I don't fully understand yet, but what I'm trying to do is connect to an open port in a running docker container. I've pulled and run the rabbitmq container from hub (https://hub.docker.com/_/rabbitmq/). The rabbitmq container should uses port 5672 for clients to connect to.
After running the container (as instructed in the hub page):
$ docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name some-rabbit rabbitmq:3
Now what I want to do is telnet into the open post (it is possible on a regular rabbitmq installation and should be on a container as well).
I've (at least I think I did) gotten the container IP address using the following command:
docker inspect -f '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' container_name_or_id
And the result I got was 172.17.0.2. When I try to access using telnet 172.17.0.2 5672 it's unsuccessful.
The address 172.17.0.2 seems strange to me because if I run ipconfig on my machine I don't see any interface using 172.17.0.x address. I do see Ethernet adapter vEthernet (DockerNAT) using the following ip: 10.0.75.1. Is this how it is supposed to be?
If I do port binding (adding -p 5672:5672) then I can telnet into this port using telnet localhost 5672 and immidiatly connect.
What am I missing here?
As you pointed out, you need port binding in order to achieve the result you need because you are running the application over the default bridge network (on Windows i guess).
From the official docker doc
Containers connected to the same user-defined bridge network automatically expose all ports to each other, and no ports to the outside world. [...] If you run the same application stack on the default bridge network, you need to open both the web port and the database port, using the -p or --publish flag for each. This means the Docker host needs to block access to the database port by other means.
Later in the rabbitmq hub there is a reference to a Management Plugin which is run by executing the command
docker run -d --hostname my-rabbit --name some-rabbit -p 8080:15672 rabbitmq:3-management
Which exposes the port 8080 used for management which I think is what you may need. You should also notice that they talk about clusters and nodes there, maybe they meant the container to be run as a service in a swarm (hence using the overlay network and not the bridge one).
Hope I could help somehow :)