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Problem:

Using docker-compose for container orchestration, establish https communication between an MVC UI and a .NET Web API each in separate containers.

Solution:

1. Remove the EXPOSE 80 and EXPOSE 443 from each Dockerfile
2. In docker-compose.yml add ports to each service. I added - "49161:443" to my UI service and - "49162:443" to my API service.
3. Remove ports sections from each service in docker-compose.override.yml

*Note:

I'm not 100% satisfied with this solution. Networking in Compose promises a cleaner solution to this problem. Seems like either way, I will ultimately need to store the hostname with its port (i.e. localhost:49162) in some kind of environment variable.