Linking Container in AWS Fargate

Question

I try to setup a little example on AWS Fargate and try to have one application container with one database container there.

The task definition starts both containers, b

Answer 1

Containers in Fargate tasks share a network namespace, so you don't need to use links at all. You can simply communicate via localhost.

For example, if you have container A running a web server on port 8000, container B could reach it with curl http://localhost:8000/

Answer 2

You can probably set it up so the services can communicate over the public IP address with each other, then secure the ports using a VPC only the services can communicate with themselves on.