Kafka FQDN in containers enviornment - docker

Question

Running kafka on a container and trying to create a new pgsql container on the same host.
the pgsql container keeps exiting and the logs indicates
ERROR: Failed to connect to Kafka at kafka.domain, check the docker run -e KAFKA_FQDN= value
the kafka container is built with the following attributes
docker run -d \
--name=app_kafka \
-e KAFKA_FQDN=localhost \
-v /var/app/kafka:/data/kafka \
-p 2181:2181 -p 9092:9092 \
app/kafka
the pgsql container with
docker run -d --name app_psql \
-h app-psql \
**-e KAFKA_FQDN=kafka.domain \
--add-host kafka.domain:172.17.0.1 \**
-e MEM=16 \
--shm-size=512m \
-v /var/app/config:/config \
-v /var/app/postgres/main:/data/main \
-v /var/app/postgres/ts:/data/ts \
-p 5432:5432 -p 9005:9005 -p 8080:8080 \
app/postgres
If i'm using docker0 ip address, the logs indicates no route to host, if i'm using the kafka docker ip, i'm getting connection refused.
I guess i'm missing something basic here that needs to be modified to my environment, but I'm lacking in knowledge here.
Will appreciate any assistance here.

Answer 1

You need edit container file hosts, you can pass a script in dockerFile like to
COPY dot.sh .
ENTRYPOINT ["sh","domain.sh"]
And domain.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo Environment container kafka is: "kafka.domain"
echo PGSQL container is "pgsql.domain"
echo "127.0.0.1 kafka.domain" >> /etc/hosts
echo "127.0.0.1 pgsql.domain" >> /etc/hosts
Feel free change ip or domain to needs.