You could also create a network for each pair of containers that need to communicate with one another.

That would create an excessive amount of bridges in my case. Also this is another trivial suggestion that anyone can find with a quick search or asking an LLM. Not helpful.

I'm not sure why people are replying to my comment with solutioning and trivial suggestions. All I did was encourage the thread OP to publish their notes. FWIW I've already been through a lot of options for solving my issue, and I've settled on one for now.