I have the eclipse-mosquitto image up and running, also a publisher in another container that connects and publishes successfully. I can shell into the broker container and use mosquitto_sub to retain the messages, but when I try to subscribe from the local machine the connection is refused.
This is the command I've used to start the container:
docker run --name mqtt --restart=always --net=host -tid eclipse-mosquitto
The --net=host flag is used so I can just use localhost everywhere.
And this is how I tried to subscribe, which works from within the container:
mosquitto_sub -h localhost -t TOPIC
Is there a Docker flag or some other option that I've missed preventing me to subscribe from the local machine? Or would a subscriber in a Docker container work?
On Windows only, it is necessary to set the publish flag for the specific port, so the correct command to start the broker is
docker run --name mqtt -p 1883:1883 -tid eclipse-mosquitto
while the publisher is started with
docker run -it --net=host mosquitto-pub
Then a subscriber on the local machine is started without problem by simply
mosquitto_sub -t TOPIC
Note: The --net=host flag for the broker can't be used with the publish flag. Not sure why it's still necessary for the publisher though.