Communication Refused between 2 Docker Express Microservices - docker

Question

I am trying to deploy a full stack application with docker containers, currently I have various express microservice images, and a react nginx image that are all being proxied by nginx, when react makes a call to one of my microservices it has to make a synchronous request to another but I am getting connection refused and not sure why, i have tried to do this with both relative and absolute urls to no avail.
Here is my docker compose:
networks:
my_network:
driver: bridge
services:
nginx-service:
image: sahilhakimi/topshelf-nginx:latest
ports:
- 80:80
depends_on:
- identity-service
- client-service
- product-service
- cart-service
networks:
- my_network
client-service:
image: sahilhakimi/topshelf-frontend:latest
networks:
- my_network
identity-service:
image: sahilhakimi/topshelf-identity:latest
environment:
TOKEN_KEY: 7e44d0deaa035296b0cb10b3ea46ac627707e51c277908b609c0739d1adafc22e7e543faf9d43028ae64cccdf506e7994a1b0075880aae61a6cdb87d087bc082759a12c398d7e3291fd54539f1b260c7a5f6c79e2c4d586a180ed42b93866583c8da85acf261939d2171ef4b18765a205ee35f8cd1b989a8473589642176f6d1
REFRESH_TOKEN_KEY: b7fb9c5209f55dc4b50d0faef5b4a0b3bdaa81db1e813779ef6c064de0a934e0c2e027fe5e2a9ab7b6d6c06a5d7099ccd837f7698ba9b5a8bee5e1acd86823c0eb29945d4965fe0db59d95c2defb60dbebb1b034dd22132115f14a50e175bd44bc919a91b7b6731e25908fc3b8800d06e90c6b1288b42c8b2378c2a619931e33
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AKIATQAAJCDKIHEBIK5B
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: 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
MONGO_URI: mongodb://root:rootpassword#mongodb_container:27017/Users?authSource=admin
REDIS_PASSWORD: eYVX7EwVmmxKPCDmwMtyKVge8oLd2t81
REDIS_HOST: cache
REDIS_PORT: 6379
clientUrl: http://client-service:5173
depends_on:
- mongodb_container
- cache
networks:
- my_network
product-service:
image: sahilhakimi/topshelf-product:latest
environment:
TOKEN_KEY: 7e44d0deaa035296b0cb10b3ea46ac627707e51c277908b609c0739d1adafc22e7e543faf9d43028ae64cccdf506e7994a1b0075880aae61a6cdb87d087bc082759a12c398d7e3291fd54539f1b260c7a5f6c79e2c4d586a180ed42b93866583c8da85acf261939d2171ef4b18765a205ee35f8cd1b989a8473589642176f6d1
REFRESH_TOKEN_KEY: b7fb9c5209f55dc4b50d0faef5b4a0b3bdaa81db1e813779ef6c064de0a934e0c2e027fe5e2a9ab7b6d6c06a5d7099ccd837f7698ba9b5a8bee5e1acd86823c0eb29945d4965fe0db59d95c2defb60dbebb1b034dd22132115f14a50e175bd44bc919a91b7b6731e25908fc3b8800d06e90c6b1288b42c8b2378c2a619931e33
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AKIATQAAJCDKIHEBIK5B
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: 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
MONGO_URI: mongodb://root:rootpassword#mongodb_container:27017/Products?authSource=admin
KAFKA_HOST: kafka:9092
depends_on:
- mongodb_container
- kafka
networks:
- my_network
cart-service:
image: sahilhakimi/topshelf-cart:latest
environment:
TOKEN_KEY: 7e44d0deaa035296b0cb10b3ea46ac627707e51c277908b609c0739d1adafc22e7e543faf9d43028ae64cccdf506e7994a1b0075880aae61a6cdb87d087bc082759a12c398d7e3291fd54539f1b260c7a5f6c79e2c4d586a180ed42b93866583c8da85acf261939d2171ef4b18765a205ee35f8cd1b989a8473589642176f6d1
REFRESH_TOKEN_KEY: b7fb9c5209f55dc4b50d0faef5b4a0b3bdaa81db1e813779ef6c064de0a934e0c2e027fe5e2a9ab7b6d6c06a5d7099ccd837f7698ba9b5a8bee5e1acd86823c0eb29945d4965fe0db59d95c2defb60dbebb1b034dd22132115f14a50e175bd44bc919a91b7b6731e25908fc3b8800d06e90c6b1288b42c8b2378c2a619931e33
REDIS_PASSWORD: eYVX7EwVmmxKPCDmwMtyKVge8oLd2t81
REDIS_HOST: cache
REDIS_PORT: 6379
KAFKA_HOST: kafka:9092
depends_on:
- cache
- kafka
networks:
- my_network
mongodb_container:
image: mongo:latest
environment:
MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: root
MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: rootpassword
ports:
- 27017:27017
volumes:
- mongodb_data_container:/data/db
networks:
- my_network
cache:
image: redis:6.2-alpine
restart: always
ports:
- "6379:6379"
command: redis-server --save 20 1 --loglevel warning --requirepass eYVX7EwVmmxKPCDmwMtyKVge8oLd2t81
volumes:
- cache:/data
networks:
- my_network
zookeeper:
image: zookeeper:latest
networks:
- my_network
kafka:
image: wurstmeister/kafka:latest
networks:
- my_network
ports:
- 29092:29092
environment:
KAFKA_LISTENERS: EXTERNAL_SAME_HOST://:29092,INTERNAL://:9092
KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: INTERNAL://kafka:9092,EXTERNAL_SAME_HOST://localhost:29092
KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: INTERNAL:PLAINTEXT,EXTERNAL_SAME_HOST:PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: INTERNAL
KAFKA_CREATE_TOPICS: "addToCart:1:1,invalidCartProduct:1:1"
KAFKA_AUTO_CREATE_TOPICS_ENABLE: "true"
KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS: "-Xmx256M -Xms128M"
KAFKA_JVM_PERFORMANCE_OPTS: " -Xmx256m -Xms256m"
KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: zookeeper:2181
depends_on:
- zookeeper
volumes:
mongodb_data_container:
cache:
driver: local
The request that is giving me trouble is in the cart service and currently looks like this:
const response = await axios.post(
"http://product-service:3001/api/product/checkout",
{
cart: JSON.parse(cart),
token: req.body.token,
},
{
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
Cookie: `accessToken=${cookies.accessToken}; refreshToken=${cookies.refreshToken}`,
},
}
);
and here is my nginx configuration as well,
upstream client{
server client-service;
}
upstream identity{
server identity-service:3000;
}
upstream product{
server product-service:3001;
}
upstream cart{
server cart-service:3002;
}
server {
listen 80;
location / {
client_max_body_size 100M;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
proxy_pass http://client;
}
location /api/user/ {
client_max_body_size 100M;
proxy_pass http://identity;
}
location /api/product/{
client_max_body_size 100M;
proxy_pass http://product;
}
location /api/cart/{
client_max_body_size 100M;
proxy_pass http://cart;
}
}
The error log in my docker container is :
cause: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3001
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1495:16) {
errno: -111,
code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
syscall: 'connect',
address: '127.0.0.1',
port: 3001
}
}
I tried the above and was expecting my request to properly be made to product service without connection refused, i know that the request is initially being proxied to cart service as wanted by nginx