Hi there,
I have the following construction: Server 1 (mongod + app) and server 2 (just the app) Both run their app inside Docker. I enabled private networking for both servers, and they are in the same region.
What I want to do is access the DB that’s installed on server, on server 2 using the private IP of server 1. I can do this without Docker but not inside.
I currently use the public (external) IP address. Does anyone know how to make this work? Thanks!
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You may need to specify the IP address when using the docker command to launch your container. instead of just adding a mapping of container port to host port you can also specify the IP address (in this case the host’s private IP).
docker run -p 127.0.0.1:$HOSTPORT:$CONTAINERPORT --name CONTAINER -t someimage
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