Ability to set the mapped port to have local access

[ragingdave]

While the spirit of docker is to have things all in docker, there are times where there needs to be a split either for infrastructure reasons or just personal preference. In that way, the configuration of this and likely other infra packages results in a random port for localhost access. This is less than ideal when for example attempting to access the postgres database via something like Rubymine, or other database GUI tooling (yes yes CLI is superior, but still).

Is there a way to propagate a port mapping to make this situation work and have a stable localhost port mapping for a postgres instance?

[bibendi]

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[ragingdave]

I will say that's cool and all, but would require a shift in used technologies that might not be applicable for companies. I would still think that having the ability to do what I outlined would be preferable in most use cases especially, if a company is already subscribed to other tooling.