How to set hostname for containers in Container group

Question

I was a defined a container group with 6 containers. Each container depends on another container by using the hostname of that container.

For example:
Container A contains DB with port 3306
Container B used DB connection like jdbc:mysql://A:3306/ (A defines the hostname of Container A)

So how do I configure YAML file for defining the hostname for the containers?

Answer 1

@Vinay Nath Bandi

Apologies in delayed response on this.

Currently you cannot set ACI hostnames manually and it is populated by the orchestrator under the hood. There is already a feature request here.

The possible workaround is to use a DNS name/Public IP & port combination (or masquerade them as environment variables with desired host names against each container separately) for inter container communication. More information in this document.

Other option could be:

If using docker compose applications by modifying /etc/hosts file which is shared by containers:

"You can also deploy and manage multi-container applications defined in Compose files to ACI using the docker compose command. All containers in the same Compose application are started in the same container group. Service discovery between the containers works using the service name specified in the Compose file. Name resolution between containers is achieved by writing service names in the /etc/hosts file that is shared automatically by all containers in the container group."

Refer this document.

Hope this information is helpful.

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