I have successfully set up Docker-Desktop for Windows and installed my first linux containers from dockerhub. Network-wise containers can communicate with each other on the docker internal network. I am even able to communication with the host network via host.docker.internal.
Now i am coming to the point where i want to access the outside network (Just some other server on the network of the docker host) from within a docker-container.
I have read on multiple websites that network_mode: host does not seem to work with docker desktop for windows.
I have not configured any switches within Hyper-V Manager and have not added any routes in docker, as i am confused with the overall networking concept of docker-desktop for windows in combination with Hyper-V and Linux Containers.
Below you can see my current docker-compose.yaml with NiFi and Zookeeper installed. NiFi is able to see Zookeeper and NiFi is able to query data from a database installed on the docker host. However i need to query data from a different server other than the host.
version: "3.4"
services:
zookeeper:
restart: always
container_name: zookeeper
ports:
- 2181:2181
hostname: zookeeper
image: 'bitnami/zookeeper:latest'
environment:
- ALLOW_ANONYMOUS_LOGIN=yes
nifi:
restart: always
container_name: nifi
image: 'apache/nifi:latest'
volumes:
- D:\Docker\nifi:/data # Data directory
ports:
- 8080:8080 # Unsecured HTTP Web Port
environment:
- NIFI_WEB_HTTP_PORT=8080
- NIFI_CLUSTER_IS_NODE=false
- NIFI_CLUSTER_NODE_PROTOCOL_PORT=8082
- NIFI_ZK_CONNECT_STRING=zookeeper:2181
- NIFI_ELECTION_MAX_WAIT=1 min
depends_on:
- zookeeper