Start a container with a public ip for incoming connections but also let it connected to internal network

General
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I have a setup with an internal network for the containers to communicate together.

All the containers are on this network.

I also have one container that needs to be directly accessible from the outside (I’m trying to avoid going through the reverse proxy since it’s going to be a lot of requests as users will poll that connection).
I have a reserved IP on the server for this container.

I managed to get it accessible from the outside by adding to the docker-compose.yml file:

- ports:
    'external_ip:443:443'

The container is accessible from the outside, but I can’t add the common network, so it looks like I can either be on the internal network, or accessible from the outside.

I need all incoming connections on that external_ip to arrive straight to the container, but the container needs access to the internal network as well.

How can I achieve this (ideally within docker-compose)

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Please share the content of your compose file.
Furthermore, “internal network” is slightly ambiguous, as it could mean a container network, or the host’s local network and whatever it can reach via routing.