I have a docker container with tcserver on it with the UI of an application on it. I have a second docker container that is also running tcserver, but this one has the applications engine.
I am trying to get these two to talk to each other somehow, because when I access the UI on the web browser it says that it is not connected to the engine. How can I achieve this?
You need to link the new allotted ports of the App Engine container to the UI Container, because the container can only be accessed by other containers through port.
As simple as that:
docker run --name engine -d tcserver-engine
docker run --name lala --link engine:tc-engine -d tcserver-ui
Inside lala container you can get engine container using the selected alias, in this example tc-engine
Use name and link in your docker run command or docker-compose.yml file?
docker run -ti --name server1 -p 8111:8111 ikamman/docker-tc-server
docker run -ti --name server2 --link server1 -p 8112:8111 ikamman/docker-tc-server
docker exec server2 curl server1:8111
Will return like this:
$ docker exec server2 curl server1:8111
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 3546 0 3546 0 0 3290 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 3292
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