BUG: Docker API access issues in local env

[Luka-Loncar]

Description

• Users are experiencing issues accessing the API when running the application through Docker, despite having the proper environment configuration.
• The API endpoints at localhost:8080 are not accessible.

Current Configuration

• Environment includes API_ENABLED=true in .env file
• Running with docker-compose up -d

Observed Behavior

• API endpoints are not accessible at localhost:8080
• Frontend can start but cannot make API calls

Steps to Reproduce

• Set up Docker environment with provided configuration
• Include API_ENABLED=true in .env file
• Run docker-compose up -d
• Attempt to access API endpoints at localhost:8080

Impact

• Blocking local development setup for team members
• Similar issues reported by customer attempting integration

[mcamou]

I've not yet done the setup to run the Oracle so I can't verify this, but this sounds like something that I've seen on certain Macs. The Docker daemon runs inside a VM called Colima, which by default does not expose any ports to the host. You need to do the following:

$ docker-compose down
$ colima stop
$ colima start --network-address
$ docker-compose up -d

While this will still not expose the port on localhost, it will assign to the VM an IP address that is visible from the host. You can find out the IP address by running colima list. In my Mac it's 192.168.108.4, so the API should be available at 192.168.108.4:8080.

Reference: StackOverflow.

[mcamou]

I've done further testing. As long as you do the colima start --network-address bit you should be able to connect to localhost. You only need to do it once, the setting is persistent.

If this happens on something other than a Mac, then I have no idea.