Script to start WSL and bind localhost to WSL IP

docker-compose.yml

# Example docker-compose.yml for plex. 
version: "2"
services:
  plex:
    image: plexinc/pms-docker:plexpass
    runtime: nvidia
    container_name: "plex"
    restart: always
    hostname: "MY-PLEX"
    volumes:
      - plex-transcode:/transcode
      - /plex:/config
      - plex-video:/data/video
      - plex-music:/data/music
    ports:
      - "0.0.0.0:32400:32400"
      - "0.0.0.0:33400:33400"
      - "0.0.0.0:65001:65001"
    environment:
      TZ: America/New_York
      PLEX_CLAIM: <your-claim>
      ADVERTISE_IP: https://your.plex.server
      PLEX_UID: 1001
      PLEX_GID: 1001
      NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES: all
      NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES: compute,video,utility
volumes:
  # Examples only
  plex-music:
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      type: cifs
      device: //192.168.1.2/media/MusicLibrary
      o: "username=plex,password=xxxx"
  plex-video:
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      type: cifs
      device: //192.168.1.2/media/VideoLibrary
      o: "username=plex,password=xxxx"
  plex-transcode:
    external: false
  

init-wsl

#!/bin/sh
service docker start

start-wsl.cmd

"C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "c:\scripts\configure-wsl-plex.js" >> "c:\scripts\configure-wsl-plex.log" 2>&1

start-wsl.js

const { exec } = require("child_process");

const distro = "Ubuntu-20.04";

const ipPattern = /^(?:[0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}$/;
async function main() {
  log("info", "Starting WSL initialization");
  const isRunning = await isWslDistroRunning();
  if (!isRunning) {
    log("info", "Distro stopped, starting...");
    await runCommand(`wsl -d ${distro} -u root /etc/init-wsl`);
  }

  const data = await runCommand("C:\\Windows\\System32\\wsl.exe hostname -I");
  const parts = data.split(" ");
  const ip = parts[0];
  if (!ipPattern.test(ip)) {
    throw new Error(`Received '${data}'; could not extract an IP`);
  }
  log("info", `Configuring netsh to route to ${ip}`);

  try {
    await runCommand(
      'netsh interface portproxy delete v4tov4 listenaddress="0.0.0.0" listenport=32400'
    );
  } catch (e) {
    log("warn", e.message)
  }
  await runCommand(
    `netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 listenport=32400 connectaddress=${ip} connectport=32400`
  );
  log("info", "Done");
}

async function isWslDistroRunning() {
  const distroText = distro.replace(/\./g, "\\.");
  const wslStatePattern = new RegExp(
    `\\*?\\s*${distroText}\\s*(Running|Stopped)\\s*(1|2)`
  );
  const wslState = await runCommand("wsl --list --verbose");
  const lines = splitLines(wslState);

  const distroMatches = lines.filter((line) => wslStatePattern.test(line));
  if (distroMatches.length > 1) {
    throw new Error(
      `More than one match for distro name "${distro}" was found, can't continue.`
    );
  }
  if (distroMatches.length === 0) {
    throw new Error(`No matches for distro name "${distro}".`);
  }

  const matches = distroMatches[0].match(wslStatePattern);
  const state = matches[1];
  log("info",`Machine state: ${state}`)
  switch (state) {
    case "Running":
      return true;
    case "Stopped":
      return false;
    default:
      throw new Error(`Unknown wsl state "${state}"`);
  }
}

async function runCommand(command) {
  const deferred = createDeferred();

  log("info", `> ${command}`);
  exec(command, function (err, stdout, stderr) {
    if (err) {
      deferred.reject(err);
      return;
    }
    if (stderr) {
      log("error", stderr);
    }

    deferred.resolve(stdout);
    return;
  });
  return deferred.promise();
}

/**
 * make a promise, and provide the resolve/reject functions
 */
function createDeferred() {
  let resolve;
  let reject;
  const promise = new Promise((_resolve, _reject) => {
    resolve = _resolve;
    reject = _reject;
  });
  return {
    promise: async () => promise,
    resolve: resolve,
    reject: reject,
  };
}

function splitLines(lines) {
  let cleanLines = lines.replace(/\r/g, "").replace(/\0/g, "");

  while (cleanLines.endsWith("\n")) {
    cleanLines = cleanLines.slice(0, cleanLines.length - 1);
  }
  return cleanLines.split("\n");
}

function log(level, message) {
  const now = new Date().toISOString();
  console.log(`${now} [${level}] ${message}`);
}
main()
  .then(() => {
    process.exit(0);
  })
  .catch((e) => {
    log("error", e.message);
    process.exit(1);
  });

You are a genius!

Docker Desktop now supports remote WSL2 containers - I think you now only need the compose file and the rest can be achieved natively there.