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Having:

  • An Openshift Cluster version 4.8.18 running on the Azure Openshift Service

  • A Project in the cluster running a SQL Server 2019 Instance created via oc new-app like so: oc new-app mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2019-latest -e ACCEPT_EULA=Y -e SA_PASSWORD="securepa$$@asdf" --name sqlserver

  • The instance starts properly according to the pod logs and openshift reports OK readiness and liveliness

  • By connecting via oc rsh directly to the container, I am able to interact with the database via sqlcmd

I am trying to connect to the database instance with SSMS v18.10 on Windows 10 via the kubernetes port-forwarding mechanism following this post without success:

oc port-forward pod/sqlserver-aaaaaaaaa-aaaaa 1433:1433

Connections on localhost from SSMS with correct credentials always result in the following error:

Cannot connect to localhost.
Additional information:
A network-related or instance-specific error occured while establishing a connection to SQL Server.
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Note that:

  • I am trying to connect while the oc port-forward is running
  • I tried disabling the Windows 10 firewall and trying to connect without success
  • I tried port forwarding from a web application and it worked with the firewall on with the same cluster

What am I missing here?

UPDATE 1

I have been able to connect to the SQL Server Instance by creating a service of type LoadBalancer via the External IP created by the service.

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    What settings are you using in SSMS to connect? In the Server name field are you typing 127.0.0.1,1433?
    – AlwaysLearning
    Jan 23, 2022 at 21:24
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    The linked blog entry seems to expose the container's port 1433 in its Kubernetes template with containerPort: 1433. Are you sure you don't need to do something like that with oc new-app?
    – AlwaysLearning
    Jan 23, 2022 at 21:25
  • @AlwaysLearning I am connecting with SSMS by specifying localhost, I will give a try to 127.0.0.1,1433
    – Chedy2149
    Jan 24, 2022 at 6:37
  • @AlwaysLearning After creating the deployment with oc new-app I am able to confirm that the port exposed on the pod is 1433
    – Chedy2149
    Jan 24, 2022 at 6:38

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As mentioned in the linked post and by @AlwaysLearning in the comments, you have to connect by refering to localhost by IP(127.0.0.1) and not by hostname(localhost).

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