OH MY GOD DOCKER I JUST WANT NODE TO CONNECT TO THE DAMN MYSQL CONTAINER!

its probably easy but jesus there is so much weird documentation to go through and hope something works...

here some tutorials 🙂

www.katacoda.com

https://digitalocean.com/community/...

Linking becomes more easy if you use docker-compose.

You have to link the mysql container to the node app container. It's a pain doing this via `docker run`

Use docker-compose and link both services. The you can use the name as the ip of the other service, and you can connect .

Read the docs. It will help you a lot. Also Docker-compose.

@ManuLG I am using docker-compose, but the link feature seems to be deprecated

@SpectralKH try version 2 of docker compose, it's slightly easier to understand

Try to use container networking if you can, since container links are marked as deprecated. If you create your own bridge network (docker-compose does that for you) you can just use container name resolution to connect to other containers.

Docker compose is my new girlfriend. Everything is simple with her, she made me love docker even more.

@thiemok I am using compose, but I get "connection refused" when I use file_get_contents("http://api") in my PHP container, where api is the name of the node container.

Also tried setting up user-defined networks simply by defining them and adding all services to it.

@SpectralKH Does your nose application export port 80?

I have the same problemen ffs.

@SpectralKH on which port is your node service running? And did you expose it in your Dockerfile?

@k0pernikus @thiemok I don't know what to feel... I've spent like 6 hours figuring this out (Thank you)

@SpectralKH that's normal ^^