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January 10, 2019

How to allow insecure hosts in Docker

To allow docker to connect to a insecure host (a host using http instead of https) you need to edit the daemon.json to have some config!

Steps to allow

  1. Find the config - locate docker | grep daemon
  2. Edit daemon.json
  3. Add "insecure-registries" : ["url:port"]
  4. Restart the docker service

Thanks for reading!

John Wiseman

Full-Stack Software Engineer building scalable digital solutions. specializing in modern web technologies and mission-critical systems.

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