Container Access via IP

Containers can also be accessed directly through their IP addresses, which helps reduce port clutter on your host machine.

To set this up, first install licobox-helper

Install licobox-helper

licobox install-helper

After installing the helper, you will be able to directly access container via it’s IP address like this:

# Run a container, in this case an nginx
$ docker run --rm --name nginx -d nginx

# Get internal IP of the container
$ docker inspect nginx --format '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}'
172.17.0.2

## Try directly request via it's internal IP
$ curl -I 172.17.0.2
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.29.7
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:27:30 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 896
Last-Modified: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:38:34 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "69c2affa-380"
Accept-Ranges: bytes