This article provides steps to resolve this issue, and to allow for network connectivity to be established to the underlying docker containers that are being managed by a VM.
Symptoms:
- Docker container IPs running on a Virtual Machine are not being picked up or identified by VMware tools.
- Connectivity to the VM managing the docker containers can be established; however, the docker containers themselves cannot be reached over the network.
- Regardless of the guest OS of the managing VM (linux, windows, macOS, FreeBSD, etc..), IP detection and network access to the docker containers cannot be established.