Not able to connect to a docker container from windows using io.fabric8

Question

I am running some Integration tests on a Windows 10 machine. I have a Java maven project that uses io.fabric8 docker maven plugin to manage docker images and containers.

I am having issues when my Integration Tests are trying to communicate with docker container.

I'm seeing the following error:

 Failed to execute goal io.fabric8:docker-maven-plugin:0.19.0:start (prepare-it) on project some-app-name: Execution prepare-it of goal io.fabric8:docker-maven-plugin:0.19.0:start failed: Start-Job failed with unexpected exception: [rabbitmq:3-management-alpine] "rabbitmq": Timeout after 55148 ms while waiting on url http://127.0.0.1:65474 -> [Help 1]

I've tried running it with mvn clean install -Dlocal.host=0.0.0.0 and mvn clean install -Dlocal.host=127.0.0.1 with no luck. Similiar error message as above.

My windows 10 environment variable is: DOCKER_HOST env variable is set to tcp://username-remotelinux.somecloudprovider.co.uk:2375

When I run docker ps, I see the following:

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                                                                                    COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                                                                      NAMES
34b43c52ca96        rabbitmq:3-management-alpine                                                             "docker-entrypoint.s…"   13 seconds ago      Up 11 seconds       4369/tcp, 5671/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5672->5672/tcp, 15671/tcp, 25672/tcp, 0.0.0.0:15672->15672/tcp   docker_rabbitmq_1

I also checked the IP address of the container:

$ docker inspect -f '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' c6314df1cd10
172.24.0.5

I've noticed that the ip address of the container is different to what I see when I run docker ps.

Is there a reason why its different?

How do I get this to work? Any ideas?

UPDATE 1: I've also tried using 0.33.0 version of the docker maven plugin with no luck. I'm getting the same error as above

UPDATE 2: I've also tried running with mvn install -Ddocker.host=tcp://username-remotelinux.somecloudprovider.co.uk:2375 with no luck. There must be something I'm missing. How to get maven to table to remote docker