I'm having difficulty creating an nginx configuration file for a django app deployed in kubernetes. Nginx and app are two separate containers within the same cluster. From what I understand containers can communicate with each other via 127.0.0.1:XX and via hostnames. I'm using minikube for this. My app container is built from this file:

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: website
  labels:
    name: website
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        name: website
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: website
          image: killabien/web
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8000
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: website
  labels:
    name: website
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
    - port: 8000
      targetPort: 8000
  selector:
    name: website

And nginx from this:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: frontend
spec:
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: 80
  selector:
    app: website
    tier: frontend
  type: LoadBalancer
---
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: frontend
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: website
        tier: frontend
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: killabien/nginx
          name: nginx

I can access the application itself(served without static files) but when I try to reach nginx I get 502 Bad Gateway error. Here is the nginx config file:

upstream website {
    server 127.0.0.1:8000;

}
server {
    listen 80;
    location /static {
        alias /www/davidbien/static;
    }

   location / {
        proxy_pass http://website;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
     }
}

I tried replacing 127.0.0.1:8000 with the container name(website) and localhost:8000 but nothing changed. What am I doing wrong?