Running two bots on the same server using Docker

Rasa Open Source
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Hello, everyone!

Introduction

We’re using rasa_core and rasa_nlu docker images to run an English bot on a virtual machine hosted on Azure. We are adding an Arabic bot soon.

The problem is when running docker-compose up to run the Arabic bot, even after specifying in the docker-compose.yml file to use another port, the rasa_core, action_server and rasa_nlu are all running on the same ports as the English bot. (5005 for rasa_core instead of 6005 for example).

Here is the docker-compose.yml file:

version: '3.0'

services:
  rasa_core:
    image: rasa/rasa_core:latest
    ports:
      - 6005:6005
    volumes:
      - ./models/rasa_core:/app/models
      - ./config:/app/config
    command:
      - start
      - --core
      - models
      - -c
      - rest
      - --endpoints
      - config/endpoints.yml
      - -u
      - current/
  rasa_nlu:
    image: rasa/rasa_nlu:latest-tensorflow
    volumes:
      - ./models/rasa_nlu:/app/models
    command:
      - start
      - --path
      - models
    
  action_server:
    image: custom/rasa_core_sdk:latest
    volumes:
      - ./actions:/app/actions

I also edited the config/endpoints.yml and changed the ports.

I think there is something missing in my configuration and that I need to change the ports somewhere else but I can’t figure it out.

Could you please help?

Many thanks in advance.

2

For anyone else having the same problem, I fixed this by specifying the ports I need in the commands as follows:

version: '3.0'

services:
  arabic_rasa_core:
    image: rasa/rasa_core:latest
    ports:
      - "5006:5006"
    volumes:
      - ./models/rasa_core:/app/models
      - ./config:/app/config
    command:
      - start
      - --core
      - models
      - -c
      - rest
      - --endpoints
      - config/endpoints.yml
      - -u
      - current/
      - -p
      - "5006"
  arabic_rasa_nlu:
    image: rasa/rasa_nlu:latest-tensorflow
    volumes:
      - ./models/rasa_nlu:/app/models
    command:
      - start
      - --path
      - models
      - -P
      - "5001"
    
  arabic_action_server:
    image: custom/rasa_core_sdk:latest
    volumes:
      - ./actions:/app/actions
    command:
      - start
      - --actions
      - actions
      - -p
      - "5056"