Connection refused - docker to docker

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Thanks for the answer. Please find the response below: Are the containers communicating through the host OS? - No Or are you using a docker bridge network? - No Have you exposed the appropriate ports using Docker? - Yes

If you're not using a bridge network, I think they must be using the host OS or how else would the containers be able to communicate?

Can you edit your question and post the Docker file and the docker-compose.yml file if you have one or link to your code.

@letsbelopez Thanks for the reply. I was able to establish the communication by following the below steps:

docker_1 : 
ROS_MASTER_URI = http://docker_1_IP:11311
ROS_IP = docker_1_IP

docker_2 : 
ROS_MASTER_URI = http://docker_1_IP:11311
ROS_IP = docker_2_IP

Dockers where able to communicate, however if I have to send msg from docker 2 to 1, subscriber in the docker 1 needs to be started first. Is this the right way to do ?

It looks like you followed similar instructions to running ROS on two machines The two docker containers are sharing the same ros master, and are now able to communicate. The way ROS is built, it should not matter what node (publisher or subscriber) is started first. However, the subscriber will miss all messages sent before it was started. There are more nuances to this but this is the basic use case.

@letsbelopez Could you help me with the better ways to do this if any. Also I have tried sending the message from slave to master, if I start the subscriber in the master after the publisher in the slave, I do not see any message being received in master end.