In my first job as a developer, we used custom hosts for local development with IIS. This allowed us to get a bit closer to the production configuration. We had to edit our C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file and add an entry for each host mapped to the IP address 127.0.0.1. Overall, this worked well. Nowadays, the introduction of containers into the local development flow makes this practice more complicated. Containers do not share the same hosts file as the host machine and cannot r...
