Docker [Errno 111] Connect call failed ('127.0.0.1', 6379)

Question

I am trying to follow the tutorial here https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/part_2.html and check if channel layer can communicate with Redis. The only differ

Answer 1

So I got stuck on this and none of the answers seemed to work for me.

I found that docker would give the container its own IP address. to find the IP address in the command line I used;

'docker ps' to get the container ID. 'docker inspect -f '{{range.NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}} * container-id*' which gave me the IP.

This worked for;

CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'channels_redis.core.RedisChannelLayer',
        'CONFIG': {
            "hosts": [('172.20.0.1', 6379)],
        },
    },
}