将Docker容器（django应用）连接到Windows Lan

Question

I would like to run a docker in our windows environment so that staff can access the application from their own computers, but cannot get it working.

I have tried both solutions of NAT and bridged mode that were suggested here to no avail:

How to connect to a docker container from outside the host (same network) [Windows]

When I use NAT mode, I am able to connect to the app through the localhost of the host computer (127.0.0.1:8000), when I use bridged mode I am able to use the IP of the docker machine (192.168.99.100:8000) but I cannot access them from other computers in the LAN.

I am able to ping the computer where the docker container is located from another one in the same LAN, but when I type its url into the browser, I get the standard IIS landing page. I deleted the default site in IIS in case it was taking up the port that I was trying to allocate to the docker container, but that did not work- I simply get a site cannot be reached page.

Ultimately, I just want to be able to access the app in the docker container from another computer inside the LAN on the windows server. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Edit: I should mention that the person who takes care of the domain LAN, domain controller, said he could set a specific IP address for to connect to the virtualbox (docker container) but does not have any idea of how to do that- he has never heard of docker and unfamiliar with virtualbox.

Answer 1

What finally worked for me was the following:

Virtualbox setup

• I deleted the former virtual env because I was unsure of all of the tinkering I had done to that point
• docker-machine create -d virtualbox default # to create new virtual machine
• power off default virtual machine
• choose settings, network Adapter 3, enable network adapter
• choose bridged network, note the mac address that shows up
• set promiscuous mode to allow all
• click ok
• docker-machine start default

Virtualbox settings

• Show the VM screen (either headless start, or show)
• adduser # this is for the ssh test so strictly not necessary
• type ifconfig and find whichever ethernet has the mac address you noted above usually either eth0 or eth1 (also take a look at the inet addr)
• use Putty (from windows) to ssh whateveryourname@inetaddr
• type in the password for the user you created, and you should be able to ssh into the VM now - Setting the static IP
• in the bash type: sudo ifconfig eth1 netmask 255.255.255.0
• type ifconfig to check if it changed - Application
• run your docker-compose script and access the application on staticIP:port# or just staticIP from your LAN depending on how NGINX is setup