Run Arango Shell (Arangosh) on a Kubernetes pod

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Link to github:

• Github.com: Arangodb: Kube-arangodb: Issues: 734

Here's how my issue got resolved:

To connect to arangosh, what worked for me was to use ssl before using the localhost:8529 ip-port combination in the server.endpoint. Here's the command that worked:

• kubectl exec -it _arango_cluster_crdn_podname_ -- arangosh --server.endpoint ssl://localhost:8529

For web browser, since my external access was based on NodePort type, I put in the master node's IP and the 30000-level port number that was generated (in my case, it was 31200).

For Python, in case of PyArango's Connection class, it worked when I used the arango-cluster-ea service. I put in the following line in the connection call:

• conn = Connection(arangoURL='https://arango-cluster-ea:8529', verify= False, username = 'root', password = 'XXXXX')The verify=False flag is important to ignore the SSL validity, else it will throw an error again.

Hopefully this solves somebody else's issue, if they face the similar issue.

I've tested following solution and I've managed to successfully connect to the database via:

• arangosh from localhost:

Connected to ArangoDB 'http+ssl://localhost:8529, version: 3.7.12 [SINGLE, server], database: '_system', username: 'root'

• Python code

from pyArango.connection import *conn = Connection(arangoURL='https://ABCD:8529', username="root", password="password",verify= False )db = conn.createDatabase(name="school")

Additional resources:

• Arangodb.com: Tutorials: Tutorial Python
• Arangodb.com: Docs: Stable: Tutorials Kubernetes