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Accessing Amazon RDS From AWS EKS

Ben Sooraj on October 09, 2019

Contents Premise Setup the MySQL Database - Amazon RDS Create the VPC Create the subnets Create the DB subnet group Create ...
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Ronen Magid • • Edited

Excellent tutorial. I was struggling for over a day to build simple RDS connectivity from my EKS pods to an RDS outside the EKS VPC. With your clarity, I understood where I went wrong and corrected it. Thanks for sharing!

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Ben Sooraj •

I am glad it helped!

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Daniel Lobato García •

Same here - I struggled a lot trying to create the EKS in the same VPC but the peering connection worked like a charm. Thank you Ben!

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Ben Sooraj • • Edited

I know this is late, but I am really happy that it helped!

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Saikat Chakrabortty •

Thanks for sharing this whole thing.
I have a question, I have followed the whole process, but, it did not work for me.
although instead wrapping that up with service and use that I'm directly trying to access like this:

nc bh.cvcmxxxxxxnouu.us-west-2.rds.amazonaws.com 3306
^Cpunt!

which does not work, any idea?

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Imran Hayder •

loved this clean and clear tutorial - based on it i have created a script to automate the vpc peering between EKS and RDS :) gist.github.com/hayderimran7/0eb7c...

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Ben Sooraj •

Thank you so much! I am glad it helped. I should write more :D

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Helen Anderson •

This was such a great post, thanks for putting so much working into a really clear example.

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Ben Sooraj •

Hey Helen! Thank you so much for the kind words.

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rodageve •

Great article! Thanks. Don't forget to enable DNS name resolution on your VPC Peering connection - this was the additional trick that got my set up working.

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Ben Sooraj •

I am super glad it helped!

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Luis Danilo •

Hello! Thanks for sharing!
I have a question, why it is needed to have the RDS databases and the EKS cluster in separated VPCs? I previuosly created a EKS cluster using eksctl, it created a VPC with 4 subnets, so what I've tried was to create two additional subnets, include them into default route table of VPC, create a subnet group for RDS and finally create the database, but I am unable to connect to database (I checked security groups thousand of times). Perhaps RDS databases must be in a separated VPC as demostrated in this post?
Thanks again!

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Luis Danilo •

Me again! After a exhaustive review I noticed that route tables created by eksctl was divided by public, private and default. I initially included additional subnets into default route table, I just changed said subnets associations so now "public route table" (the one that has attached an internet gateway) includes subnets added by ekctl and my two additional subnets, after that I was able to connect to my database!
But my question is still the same: It is needed to have separated VPCs for EKS cluster and RDS databases? or its more a personal choice?

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Formica •

ничего не понятно
часть материала из браузера, часть из скриптов///

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mohit sharma •

Thanks, it worked like a charm