Nodeport - connect to DB?

[aroute]

How does one connect to the database via tools like DBVisualizer from outside of the cluster? I have deployed Db2 on OCP 3.11. I tried connecting using IP:NodePort, IP:50000. Created route, tried hostname:50000. None of the combination work. Anyone able to connect to the DB from outside of the cluster? How?

[adesilva74]

You need to use the NodePort associated with the service as well -- IE. you cannot use port 50000 from outside .. When connecting via NodePort IP, you can simply direct to the hostname/IP of the master node and it'll get routed accordingly.

Example from my OpenShift cluster,

[root@harihari-master-1 ~]# oc get svc | grep -i engn
db2wh-1582088279-db2u-engn-svc   NodePort    172.30.85.13     <none>        50000:31881/TCP,50001:31977/TCP                                                   1d

[root@harihari-master-1 ~]# oc describe svc db2wh-1582088279-db2u-engn-svc | grep -i nodeport
Type:                     NodePort
NodePort:                 legacy-server  31881/TCP
NodePort:                 ssl-server  31977/TCP

[cg8]

Thanks @adesilva74, could you please submit a PR against our DOC on how to

@aroute Please reopen if you feel we did not provide enough guidance.

@rayyaoibm Could you please submit a PR for our README that further details this?