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Local development service mapping

Local development service mapping is a configuration technique used to associate specific domain names with the local machine's loopback address (typically 127.0.0.1).^[400-devops-10-version-control-readme.md] This allows developers to access locally hosted services—such as continuous integration servers or code repositories—via user-friendly URLs instead of IP addresses and ports^[400-devops-10-version-control-readme.md].

A common implementation involves editing the system's hosts file to map 127.0.0.1 to designated domain names^[400-devops-10-version-control-readme.md]. For instance, mapping 127.0.0.1 to drone-server and gitea-server enables the local network stack to route requests for those domains to the corresponding services running on the developer's own machine^[400-devops-10-version-control-readme.md].

  • [[Localhost]]
  • [[DNS]]
  • DevOps

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^[400-devops-10-version-control-readme.md]