Mqtt Docker not able to connect

General
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Hello, I'm new to docker. and wanted to communicate two containers. so I used this approach instead of making a new compose file. Linking Containers.

but I'm not able to connect my MQTT node with a broker. I have not assigned global port 1883.

here is NR docker log.

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P.S: other than this I have not done anything like making mosquitto.conf file or moving[cp] to container. I only done this as shown above link. Am i missing something?

2

localhost means local (i.e. inside the docker) - where is the broker running? In the same container? or a separate container? or on the host? or on an external machine?

Change localhost to the IP of the container/host/external PC

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Broker running on a separate container. as I said I exactly done this way Linking container.

I tried to change localhost to broker container name

"mybroker"

. but doesn't work. how can I get the IP of that container?

4

I check the container: mybroker IP address by docker inspect. and get the 172.20.0.3.

Still not able to connect.

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Also, I got inside of my container where NR is running. and on that, I'm pinging the broker container I got the result. but don't know why it is not able to connect.

pingbroker

5

This is a common docker issue. Search Google for docker to docker communication. There are lots of answers.

Question. Why use docker?

6

Hi @pranavthakkar ,
Are you sure both containers are in the same network?
Also for the mosquitto container you would configure the config, data and log folder to run
properly.

7

Thank you @Steve-Mcl. I got a solution by putting its IP. the default IP docker0 is always connect to the broker. and if I put the new NETWORK IP(IoT) not the broker IP then it is work.

Right now I'm exploring docker. what I want is to make my own image out of it and use it for scale.

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Hi @henrycosta05 . thing is I have not added any config file to Mosquitto container. but yes it is solved.

Thanks for your reply