In Docker for windows how does communication between linux and windows containers work

Question

I’m using RabbitMq for .net core based and few full fx microservices communication. RabbitMq and .net core microservices are inside of a linux based docker container and they are connected to the same network in a docker-compose file.

.Net core microservices can easily connect to RabbitMq by using container name as a hostname.

Now, when it comes to windows-based containers the network is not shared between windows and linux docker engines, so I can't connect windows based microservices to the RabbitMq service by using container name.

Can someone help me out with this issue?

Answer 1

You can create a host file in such a way that the IP of the RabbitMQ Docker container is set to a name. An example is, with Docker Toolbox you can put the this in host:

    192.168.99.100 docker

Now every developer can set the IP and the docker-compose could use the name.

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