The documentation for the commandline interface says the following:
To bind a port of the container to a specific interface of the host system, use the
I know this question had been answered, I using the above solution and here is how I did it in java using Docker Java Client v3.2.5
PortBinding portBinding = PortBinding.parse( hostPort + ":" + containerPort);
HostConfig hostConfig = HostConfig.newHostConfig()
.withPortBindings(portBinding);
CreateContainerResponse container =
dockerClient.createContainerCmd(imageName)
.withHostConfig(hostConfig)
.withExposedPorts(ExposedPort.parse(containerPort+"/tcp"))
.exec();