Connecting external systems to the WSL HNS Network

[jakegt1]

Hi. I extensively use windows-based docker containers, and had some specific use case where i wanted to start a linux container (in WSL), and then connect it to a windows based container.

After some wrangling, i discovered this:

# Get WSL network
$network = Get-HNSNetwork | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq 'WSL' }
$id = $network.Id
docker network create --driver=nat --opt 'com.docker.network.windowshim.networkname=WSL' --opt "com.docker.network.windowsshim.hnsid=$id" WSL
# Your windows containers will then have direct access to WSL. Get the IP of your WSL distro of choice:
$wslIp = wsl -d MyDistro hostname -I
docker run -it --net=WSL --rm mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2022 curl $wslIp

Now, my main question here is that is this really allowed? Or highly not recommended. this works perfect for my use case, but slightly wary..