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title: Connect to Workers and Bindings
description: Access KV, R2, Durable Objects, and other bindings from a container.
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# Connect to Workers and Bindings

Containers can access [Workers bindings](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/bindings/) — KV, R2, D1, Durable Objects, and others — through [outbound handlers](https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform-details/outbound-traffic/#define-outbound-handlers). An outbound handler intercepts HTTP requests from the container and runs inside the Workers runtime, where all of your configured bindings are available.

The container makes a plain HTTP request to a virtual hostname (for example, `http://my.kv/some-key`), and the outbound handler resolves it using the bound resource. No SDK or client library is required inside the container.

## Use bindings in outbound handlers

Define an `outboundByHost` handler for each virtual hostname. The `env` argument gives you access to every binding declared in your Wrangler configuration.

JavaScript

```

export class MyContainer extends Container {}


MyContainer.outboundByHost = {

  "my.kv": async (request, env, ctx) => {

    const url = new URL(request.url);

    const key = url.pathname.slice(1);

    const value = await env.KV.get(key);

    return new Response(value);

  },

  "my.r2": async (request, env, ctx) => {

    const url = new URL(request.url);

    // Scope access to this container's ID

    const path = `${ctx.containerId}${url.pathname}`;

    const object = await env.R2.get(path);

    return new Response(object?.body ?? null, { status: object ? 200 : 404 });

  },

};


```

Explain Code

The container calls `http://my.kv/some-key` and the handler resolves it using the KV binding. A call to `http://my.r2/file.png` reads from R2, scoped to the current container instance.

Note

You can use `ctx.containerId` to apply different rules per container instance — for example, to look up per-instance configuration from KV.

## Access Durable Object state

The `ctx` argument exposes `containerId`, which lets you interact with the container's own Durable Object from an outbound handler.

JavaScript

```

"get-state.do": async (request, env, ctx) => {

  const id = env.MY_CONTAINER.idFromString(ctx.containerId);

  const stub = env.MY_CONTAINER.get(id);

  // Assumes getStateForKey is defined on your DO

  return stub.getStateForKey(request.body);

},


```

## Related resources

* [Handle outbound traffic](https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform-details/outbound-traffic/) — Block, allow, and intercept all outbound HTTP from a container
* [Environment variables and secrets](https://developers.cloudflare.com/containers/platform-details/environment-variables/) — Configure secrets and environment variables
* [Durable Object interface](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/api/container/) — Full `ctx.container` API reference

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