Port Forwarding

If you need to access a port on a container that is not exposed publicly, you can use the acorn port-forward command to forward a port from the container to your local machine.

Usage

If you have deployed the MariaDB Acorn and wanted to access the database directly without exposing it publicly, you could use the following command:

acorn run -n mariadb ghcr.io/acorn-io/mariadb:v#.#.#-#
# ...
acorn port-forward mariadb 3306
# Forwarding 127.0.0.1:3306 => 3306 for container [mariadb.mariadb-58464dcc55-hkxg5]

This will forward the port 3306 from the container to your local machine. You can then connect to the database in another terminal window:

# Get generated username and password
acorn secrets reveal mariadb.user
# .. Plain text values will be in the output
mysql -u<username> -p -h127.0.0.1 -P3306
# Enter password: 
# Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
# Your MySQL connection id is 3
# Server version: 5.5.5-10.11.5-MariaDB-1:10.11.5+maria~ubu2204 mariadb.org binary distribution
# 
# Copyright (c) 2000, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
# 
# Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
# affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
# owners.
# 
# Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
# 
# mysql>