On a virtual machine I have 2 docker containers running with the names <postgres> and <system> that run on the network with name <network>. I can't change options in these containers. I have created a flask application that connects to a database and outputs the required information. To connect from local computer I use
conn = psycopg2.connect(
database="db", user='user1', password='user1_passwd'
host='<VM_ip>', port='<db_port>',
sslmode='require',
sslcert='./user1.crt',
sslkey='./user1.key')
and it worked great.
But, when I run my application on the same VM and specify
conn = psycopg2.connect(
database="db", user='user1', password='user1_passwd'
host='<postgres>.<network>', port='<db_port>',
sslmode='require',
sslcert='./user1.crt',
sslkey='./user1.key')
I get an error:
psycopg2.OperationalError: could not parse network address \"<postgres>.<network>\": Name or service not known.
Local connections are allowed in pg_hba, the problem is in connecting from the new container in VM.
Here are the settings of my new container:
version: '3'
services:
app:
container_name: app
restart: always
build: ./app
ports:
- "5000:5000"
command: gunicorn -w 1 -b 0.0.0.0:8000 wsgi:server
I tried to make the same connection as from the local computer, specifying the VM_ip, but that didn't help either.
I also tried to specify the <postgres> container ip instead of its name in the host=, but this also caused an error.
Do you know what could be the problem?
You need to create a network first which you will use to communicate between containers. You can do that by:
docker network create <example> #---> you can name it whatever you want
Then you need to connect both containers with the network that you made.
docker run -d --net example --name <postgres_container> <postgres_image>
docker run -d --net example --name <flask_container> <flask_image>
You can read more about the docker network in its documentation here: