Host hostname

[ianschmitz]

I realize the title is confusing 😛 . Sorry if there's a better forum for questions. I didn't see GitHub discussions enabled on this repo.

Coming from docker desktop, the recommended pattern when wanting to refer to HTTP URLs on the macOS host was to use host.docker.internal. I'm wondering if there's something similar in the Lima world?

A concrete example is running a Postgres instance using Postgres.app and wanting to connect to it from a container running in Lima.

[jandubois]

Coming from docker desktop, the recommended pattern when wanting to refer to HTTP URLs on the macOS host was to use host.docker.internal. I'm wondering if there's something similar in the Lima world?

We define host.lima.internal to point to the host from inside the VM.

[jandubois]

I didn't see GitHub discussions enabled on this repo.

@AkihiroSuda Should we enable discussions, so we can move questions out of Issues, which should only have actionable items?

[AkihiroSuda]

Done

[ianschmitz]

We define host.lima.internal to point to the host from inside the VM.

Wonderful. I'll give that a try. I had looked through the docs and didn't find this (sorry if I missed!) - so may be good to document it?

Cheers

[jandubois]

I had looked through the docs

It is documented here:

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/5237bfe/docs/network.md#host-ip-19216852

[rfay]

A note though - host.lima.internal should be defined inside running containers. That's what docker desktop has always done, it provides that name resolution. People don't really want to get to the host just from inside the lima container, they want to get to the host from inside containers they're running.