Access a container from another - docker

Question

I see other posts but don't work in my case, maybe i'm beeing dumb.
I tried everything.
My last version of Dockerfile:
version: '3.4'
services:
bookmemoriesfrontend:
image: ${DOCKER_REGISTRY-}bookmemoriesfrontend
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Frontend\BookMemoriesFrontend\Dockerfile
ports:
- "8000:443"
depends_on:
- booksapi
- authorsapi
authorsapi:
image: ${DOCKER_REGISTRY-}authorsapi
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Services\AuthorsAPI\Dockerfile
ports:
- "8002:443"
booksapi:
image: ${DOCKER_REGISTRY-}booksapi
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Services\BooksAPI\Dockerfile
ports:
- "8001:443"
When I open CLI from BookMemoriesFrontend, I tried several curl commmand, when i try :
curl Booksapi/api/book
I think it will receive the api result and I dont receive nothing in result.
When I run CLI my machine:
curl -s https://localhost:8001/api/book
It gives the API result.
Please help me, I'm around this almost a week.

Answer 1

You should be able to use curl https://booksapi/api/book or curl https://booksapi:443/api/book.
Since it's https, it'll make the request on port 443 by default, which is what the container is listening on, so there's no need to specify a port.
Port 8001 is only used when you access the API from the host machine. When you're on the bridge network that docker-compose creates, you use the container ports directly.