Make available host external services to Kurtosis services

[igor-ritual]

Background & motivation

I run services outside of Kurtosis which need to be accessed by services running within Kurtosis.
Currently I hard code the public hostname of my machine so that the Kurtosis services can access ports on the external services.

Desired behaviour

One way to address this pain point is to enable host.docker.internal https://docs.docker.com/desktop/networking.

How important is this to you?

Painful; the lack of this feature makes using Kurtosis frictionful.

What area of the product does this pertain to?

CLI: the Command Line Interface

[leeederek]

Hey @igor-ritual - just gathering some context: any reason why you cannot run all your services with Kurtosis? Also just to clarify: are you hardcoding the public hostname of your machine using the public_ports API in ServiceConfig (as mentioned in #1901)?

[igor-ritual]

Hi @leeederek :

any reason why you cannot run all your services with Kurtosis?
Yes: #1898

are you hardcoding the public hostname of your machine...
I'm hard coding the public hostname in my service configuration