10.6. Communicating between a container and a host

Procedure

1. Verify that the bridge is configured:

   # podman network inspect podman | grep bridge
   
       "type": "bridge"

2. Display the host network configuration:

   # ip addr show cni-podman0
   
   6: podman0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
       link/ether 62:af:a1:0a:ca:2e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
       inet 10.88.0.1/16 brd 10.88.255.255 scope global podman0
          valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
       inet6 fe80::60af:a1ff:fe0a:ca2e/64 scope link
          valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

   You can see that the web-container has an IP of the podman0 subnet and the network is bridged to the host.

3. Inspect the web-container and display its IP address:

   # podman inspect --format='{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' web-container
   
   10.88.0.2

4. Access the web-container directly from the host:

   $ curl 10.88.0.2:80