Sometimes, we need to share some files quickly on the network for our colleagues or family.
Of course, we can set up Nginx, or something else. But to this quickly and easily, and mostly, only temporarily, we can do this using many different languages quite easily.
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After installing the CloudBeaver as a Docker instance, I was trying to connect to the Postgres instance which I was running on my local machine.
In the HOST field, I tried with localhost which obviously wouldn’t work since that refers to the VM itself.
After some searching I found that to connect to the host, I need to set the connection as
host.docker.internal
Starting up another computer on a network itself is such a fascinating idea! For me, it literally feels like magic!
There are so many things involved. The computer which needs to be started (or woken up) has to have the capability, both at the hardware and the software level.
Also the computer doing the waking needs to send a magic packet!
When I initially heard this, I honestly thought this was a joke of some kind. A magic packet? Really?
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Many times during developing some application it becomes important to show the progress to someone over the internet.
Most of the time we end up using some screen sharing software. That, however, can only show my screen to the other person. They cannot really interact with the application.
We can use some software for remote desktop sharing but then I cannot work while the other person is using my screen.
One very nice solution is ngrok, which essentially creates a tunnel from the local system to ngrok’s servers and gives a nice URL.
However, I was a bit concerned since all my traffic was getting redirected via ngrok’s servers.
I was looking around for something which would do the same thing but via my servers and finally came across inlets. This is an open source project, written in Go, which can be easily self hosted.
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