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The host networking driver only works on Linux hosts, and is not supported on Docker for Mac, Docker for Windows, or Docker EE for Windows Server.

On Mac what alternatives do people use?

My scenario

What's the simplest / most elegant solution?

The most simple and most elegant solution is to use docker named bridge network. You can create a custom bridge network (default is bridge) like this:

docker network create my-network
Every container deployed inside this network can communicate with each other by using the container name.
$ docker run --network=my-network --name my-app ...
$ docker run --network=my-network --name my-database...
In the example above you can connect to your database from inside your application by using my-database:port. If the container port is exposed in the Dockerfile you don't need to map it on your host and you can keep all your communication internal inside your custom docker bridge network. 
In most cases the application its port is mapped (example: -p 80:80) so localhost:80 is mapped on container:80 and you can access the app from on your localhost. If the app needs to communicate with a db you don't need to expose the port of the db and you don't have to map it on localhost as explained already above.
Just keep the communication between app and db internal in your custom bridge network. 
                This forces me to do step 6. above. I can't reference the db at localhost instead I'd need to reference the container-name-for-db. I'm hoping to find a solution where this is not required. That'll allow me to use the micro-service defaults (which are localhost).
– Shane Gannon
                Sep 28, 2018 at 16:42
                On docker for mac you can use host.docker.internal as host to access localhost but this is still not solving your real issue probably. Also --add-host is an option but mapping localhost to your db container name seems like a bad idea stackoverflow.com/questions/31324981/…
– lvthillo
                Sep 28, 2018 at 21:32
                Or a solution like thise (I don't know grok so don't shoot at me if it's a bad solution) fullstack.network/…
– lvthillo
                Sep 28, 2018 at 21:35
        
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