can I run 8.6 Docker as client and connect to internal server

[tomchan]

Hi,

1. Can I run docker as a client and connect to any 8.6 server?

I started the process by "docker run -it phoronix/pts", I can see a very nice interactive shell show up on my list.
But I don't see any client option.

2. Can I run docker client without internet connection?

Thanks
Tom

[tomchan]

In non docker deployment, I can run
./phoronix-test-suite phoromatic.connect servernameort
but I don’t see this option in the interactive shell in docker version.

[tomchan]

The interactive shell doesn't have this option

here is the step to start the client node

1. #start pts docker
   docker run -it phoronix/pts
2. #launch another terminal
   docker exec -it dockerimageid /bin/sh
3. #start the service
   /phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite phoromatic.connect servernameort/xxxx

Now I'm facing antoher issue, I'm trying to start it as server, but I'm not able to modify the config file to specify a port instead of start it as random port,
I'm also need to expose this port to make it accessible from outside world.