How to communicate with one docker container host ip to another docker container host ip?

Posted on March 14, 2022

Hi I am new in docker side I have some doubt about communicating between two docker container’s, I have two docker container’s. One is login page container and other is dashboard container those container port are same 80 but host port differ login host port 82 and dashboard host port 83, how to communicate login page container to dashboard container with host port

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Bobby

March 14, 2022

Hello,

What I would personally do is to create a Docker network and then assign names for each container. That way the containers will be able to communicate via that new Docker network and you can use their names as the hostnames for your application.

You can follow the steps on how to do that here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-ping-docker-container-from-another-container-by-name

This also includes the following step-by-step video: