How to get IP Address of Docker Desktop VM?

Question

I'm in a team where some of us use docker toolbox and some user docker desktop. We're writing an application that needs to communicate to a docker container in development.

On docker toolbox, I know the docker-machine env command sets the docker host environment variable and I can use that to get the ip of the virtual machine that's running the docker engine. From there I just access the exposed ports.

What's the equivalent way to get that information on docker desktop? (I do not have a machine that has docker desktop, only docker toolbox but I'm writing code that should be able to access the docker container on both)

Answer 1

On windows OS, after installed docker, there is an entry added by docker inside your hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts), which states the IP as:

Added by Docker Desktop

10.xx.xx.xx host.docker.internal