How to set ip of service within a container? static ip in default network

With an ip-address of a containerized Elasticsearch from the output of docker inspect I succesfully called the Elasticsearch function in a Jupyter notebook running inside another container. Both are run by docker compose up. But on my end that ip-address changes at new run-times (e.g. docker compose up/down). _Is it possible to set the ip?_ e.g. by adding something to the the docker-compose.yml or the Dockerfile of elasticsearch used in the build context? docker inspect *composed-container-name-here* "NetworkSettings": { "Bridge": "", ... "Ports": { "9200/tcp": null, "9300/tcp": null }, ... "IPAddress": "", "Networks": { "*composed-container-name-here*_default": { "IPAMConfig": null, ... "Gateway": "172.X.X.1", "IPAddress": "172.X.X.3", } I tried subnetting in docker-compose.yml, but it returned Error response from daemon: user specified IP address is supported only when connecting to networks with user configured subnets.