Using SQL Tools via AKS Pod to Manage SQL Databases

If you want to manage/test connectivity to your private SQL server, that are using private endpoint for example, and without deploying a VM, installing SQL Server Management Studio and so on, you can use AKS to do this.

To start, deploy a pod that we will customize later:

kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/application/shell-demo.yaml

1	kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/application/shell-demo.yaml

Connect to the pod itself:

kubectl exec -it shell-demo -- /bin/bash

1	kubectl exec -it shell-demo -- /bin/bash

Install sqlcmd tool:

apt-get update && apt-get install gnupg2

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/prod.list | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/msprod.list

apt-get update && apt-get install mssql-tools unixodbc-dev

ls /opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd*

ln -sfn /opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd /usr/bin/sqlcmd

apt-get update && apt-get install gnupg2

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/prod.list | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/msprod.list

apt-get update && apt-get install mssql-tools unixodbc-dev

ls /opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd*

ln -sfn /opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd /usr/bin/sqlcmd

Connect to your database server, with the following sql command, and your credentials:

kubectl exec -it shell-demo -- /bin/bash

sqlcmd -S starwind.database.windows.net -U starwind -P 'Demo2021!'

select name from sys.databases

go

kubectl exec -it shell-demo -- /bin/bash

sqlcmd -S starwind.database.windows.net -U starwind -P 'Demo2021!'

select name from sys.databases

This is very interesting to manage your databases, or to try a connection from a private AKS cluster to a SQL Server that is using a private endpoint connection for example.

SQL Tools on a pod on AKS to manage your Azure SQL databases