Hoster is simple "etc/hosts" file injection tool to resolve names of local Docker containers on the host. Instead of exposing ports of a container on the docker host (Localhost), you can access the container by its name directly, e.g. csis-postgis:5432 for accessing the CSIS Drupal postgis db.
hoster is intended to run in a Docker container. The docker.sock is mounted to allow hoster to listen for Docker events and automatically register containers IP. Hoster inserts into the host's /etc/hosts file an entry per running container and keeps the file updated with any started/stoped container.
Hoster provides by default the entries <container name>, <hostname>, <container id> for each container and the aliases for each network. Containers are automatically registered when they start, and removed when they die.
For example, the following container would be available via DNS as myname, myhostname, et54rfgt567 and myserver.com:
docker run -d \
--name myname \
--hostname myhostname \
--network somenetwork --network-alias "myserver.com" \
mycontainer
If you need more features like systemd interation and dns forwarding please check resolvable
CLARTIY docker-hoster is based on the vddarias/docker-hoster repository and has among others been cloned to add a docker compose file.
CLARTIY docker-hoster is deployed as docker container hoster on CSIS Development System and CSIS Production System virtual servers.
The docker-hoster containers can be started with
cd /docker/000-hoster
docker-compose up -d --force-recreate --remove-orphansMIT © dvddarias