(Docker) Error initializing backend.

[strarsis]

When starting fabio as docker container using the following command

docker run -d -p 9999:9999 -p 9998:9998 -v $PWD/fabio/fabio.properties:/etc/fabio/fabio.properties magiconair/fabio:1.0.6

the container will exit and I get this error in docker logs:

2015/12/06 21:42:01 [INFO] Version 1.0.6 starting
2015/12/06 21:42:01 [FATAL] Error initializing backend. Get http://localhost:8500/v1/agent/self: dial tcp [::1]:8500: getsockopt: connection refused

[magiconair]

Did you override consul.addr to point to a consul agent? By default fabio assumes that there is a consul agent running on the same machine which most likely isn't the case for the docker container.

[strarsis]

Edit: One can use environment variables in the config properties file
(https://github.com/magiconair/properties#v110-20-jan-2014).
Or a hostname assigned by docker-compose.

[magiconair]

Yes, smart idea. Thx