need help on SOLCLIENT_SUBCODE_COMMUNICATION_ERROR

im using the following

broker_props = {
  "solace.messaging.transport.host": os.environ.get('SOLACE_HOST') or "localhost",
  "solace.messaging.service.vpn-name": os.environ.get('SOLACE_VPN') or "default",
  "solace.messaging.authentication.scheme.basic.username": os.environ.get('SOLACE_USERNAME') or "default",
  "solace.messaging.authentication.scheme.basic.password": os.environ.get('SOLACE_PASSWORD') or "default"
}

and running the docker instance using the following:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -p 55554:55555 -p 8008:8008 -p 1883:1883 -p 8000:8000 -p 5672:5672 -p 9000:9000 -p 2222:2222 --shm-size=2g --env username_admin_globalaccesslevel=admin --env username_admin_password=admin --name=solace solace/solace-pubsub-standard

i keep running into this error, and i cant find a fix.

raise PubSubPlusCoreClientError(message=core_exception_msg, sub_code=info_sub_code)
solace.messaging.errors.pubsubplus_client_error.PubSubPlusCoreClientError: {'caller_description': 'do_connect', 'return_code': 'Not ready', 'sub_code': 'SOLCLIENT_SUBCODE_COMMUNICATION_ERROR', 'error_info_sub_code': 14, 'error_info_contents': 'TCP connection failure for fd 9, error = Connection refused (61)'}

here is my docker container:

856cee91e195
solace/solace-pubsub-standard   
"/usr/sbin/boot.sh"   
2 hours ago         
Up 56 minutes       
0.0.0.0:1883->1883/tcp, 0.0.0.0:2222->2222/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5672->5672/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8008->8008/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9000->9000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:55554->55555/tcp   solace

i hope yall can help me. thanks!