How to Access Host Port from Docker Container [Duplicate]

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I have a docker container running jenkins. As part of the build process, I need to access a web server that is run locally on the host machine. Is there a way the host web server (which can be configured to run on a port) can be exposed to the jenkins container?

I'm running docker natively on a Linux machine.

UPDATE:

In addition to @larsks answer below, to get the IP address of the Host IP from the host machine, I do the following:

ip addr show docker0 | grep -Po 'inet \K[\d.]+'

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On Linux, add --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway to your Docker command to enable this feature. (See below for Docker Compose configuration.)

Use your internal IP address or connect to the special DNS name host.docker.internal which will resolve to the internal IP address used by the host.

To enable this in Docker Compose on Linux, add the following lines to the container definition:
extra_hosts:
- "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"

How to Access Host Port from Docker Container [Duplicate]

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