python - Dockerized Django project not able to connect to host's postgres database

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Answer 1

localhost for a container is the container itself. You need to either create the container in host network mode (docker run --net=host ...) to be able to connect via localhost or to provide a local network IP to connect to the database (not a loopback IP like '127.0.0.1').