How to get the IP address of the docker host from inside a docker container

Question

As the title says. I need to be able to retrieve the IP address the docker hosts and the portmaps from the host to the container, and doing that inside of the container.

Answer 1

So... if you are running your containers using a Rancher server, Rancher v1.6 (not sure if 2.0 has this) containers have access to http://rancher-metadata/ which has a lot of useful information.

From inside the container the IP address can be found here: curl http://rancher-metadata/latest/self/host/agent_ip

For more details see: https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v1.6/en/rancher-services/metadata-service/