Make it work with a remote docker host

[thomaseizinger]

The docker daemon can be hosted on a remote machine, hence in addition to the port of a container, we should also expose the host on which the docker container was started.

[mchlstckl]

I ran into this issue on Gitlab CI where you need to set the DOCKER_HOST=tcp://docker:2375.

I ended up writing an extension trait that extends Container with a get_host() method. The method url parses the DOCKER_HOST value and if scheme is ”tcp” returns the url host else returns ”localhost” (like when the scheme is ”unix”).

[0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF]

I ran into this issue on Gitlab CI where you need to set the DOCKER_HOST=tcp://docker:2375.

I ended up writing an extension trait that extends Container with a get_host() method. The method url parses the DOCKER_HOST value and if scheme is ”tcp” returns the url host else returns ”localhost” (like when the scheme is ”unix”).

@mchlstckl Could you please provide us some snippets of the relevant lines including the .gitlab-ci.yml? My integration tests are running fine on my local machines but not in the GitLab runner. I was struggling the past days to get this working, but I haven't figured out yet.

[mchlstckl]

Sorry. That was a while back and I don’t have that code anymore.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 at 23:29, kuba @.***> wrote:

I ran into this issue on Gitlab CI where you need to set the DOCKER_HOST=tcp://docker:2375.

I ended up writing an extension trait that extends Container with a get_host() method. The method url parses the DOCKER_HOST value and if scheme is ”tcp” returns the url host else returns ”localhost” (like when the scheme is ”unix”).

@mchlstckl https://github.com/mchlstckl Could you please provide us some snippets of the relevant lines including the .gitlab-ci.yml? My integration tests are running fine on my local machines but not in the GitLab runner. I was struggling the past days to get this working, but I haven't figured out yet.

— Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-rs/issues/89#issuecomment-1468927468, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAARXEXEQF32CQUPND6QMWDW4DWOHANCNFSM4HLWYGLA . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: @.***>

[0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF]

No problem, thanks for checking though. I managed to get it working and want to share it in case someone else stumbles on on this. I am passing my docker socket to the runner as described here.

.gitlab-ci.yml:

test:
  image: rust:1
  stage: test
  before_script:
    - wget https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/docker-23.0.1.tgz
    - tar xvfz docker-23.0.1.tgz
    - mv docker/docker /usr/bin/
    - rm -Rf docker/ docker-23.0.1.tgz
  script:
    - cargo test

rust trait:

use std::{process::Command, io::Read, str::FromStr};

pub trait ContainerHost {
  fn get_host_addr(&self) -> String;
}

impl<'d, I> ContainerHost for testcontainers::Container<'d, I>
where
    I: testcontainers::Image,
{
    fn get_host_addr(&self) -> String {
      let mut output = String::new();
      Command::new("docker")
      .arg("inspect")
      .arg("-f")
      .arg("'{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}'")
      .arg(&self.id())
      .output()
      .expect("inspecting container")
      .stdout
      .as_slice()
      .read_to_string(&mut output)
      .expect("parsing IP address");
      let output = output.replace('\'', "");
      let output = String::from(output.trim());

      assert!(std::net::IpAddr::from_str(output.as_str()).is_ok());
      output
    }
}

Then you can just connect to the container using its IP and internal port in your integration test.