Docker compose 3.1, communication between two docker-compose.yml - docker

Question

For past 3 days I have been trying to connect two docker containers generated by two separate docker-compose files.
I tried a lot of approaches none seem to be working. Currently after adding network to compose files, service with added network doesn't start. My goal is to access endpoint from another container.
Endpoint-API compose file:
version: "3.1"
networks:
test:
services:
mariadb:
image: mariadb:10.1
container_name: list-rest-api-mariadb
working_dir: /application
volumes:
- .:/application
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root
- MYSQL_DATABASE=list-api
- MYSQL_USER=list-api
- MYSQL_PASSWORD=root
ports:
- "8003:3306"
webserver:
image: nginx:stable
container_name: list-rest-api-webserver
working_dir: /application
volumes:
- .:/application
- ./docker/nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
ports:
- "8005:80"
networks:
- test
php-fpm:
build: docker/php-fpm
container_name: list-rest-api-php-fpm
working_dir: /application
volumes:
- .:/application
- ./docker/php-fpm/php-ini-overrides.ini:/etc/php/7.2/fpm/conf.d/99-overrides.ini
Consumer compose file:
version: "3.1"
networks:
test:
services:
consumer-mariadb:
image: mariadb:10.1
container_name: consumer-service-mariadb
working_dir: /consumer
volumes:
- .:/consumer
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root
- MYSQL_DATABASE=consumer
- MYSQL_USER=consumer
- MYSQL_PASSWORD=root
ports:
- "8006:3306"
consumer-webserver:
image: nginx:stable
container_name: consumer-service-webserver
working_dir: /consumer
volumes:
- .:/consumer
- ./docker/nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
ports:
- "8011:80"
networks:
- test
consumer-php-fpm:
build: docker/php-fpm
container_name: consumer-service-php-fpm
working_dir: /consumer
volumes:
- .:/consumer
- ./docker/php-fpm/php-ini-overrides.ini:/etc/php/7.2/fpm/conf.d/99-overrides.ini
Could someone tell me best way of accessing API container from within consumer? I'm loosing my mind on this one.

Answer 1

Your two
networks:
test:
don't refer to the same network, but they are independent and don't talk to each other.
What you could do is having an external and pre-existing network that both compose file can talk and share. You can do that with docker network create, and then refer to that in your compose files with
networks:
default:
external:
name: some-external-network-here