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E. Lynette Rayle edited this page Apr 15, 2022 · 5 revisions

Connecting with ssh to the AWS machine

Find ip for AWS machine

AWS -> Services -> Elastic Container Service
(left menu) Clusters (under Amazon ECS) - make sure on list view
Filter: search for qa or possibly lookup
Click list item: the cluster name
Click tab: ECS Instances tab (there will be two instances listed in the table)
Click on instance: the one that has Running tasks == 1
use Public IP for ssh

ssh into the machine

ssh -i _PATH_TO_SSH_PEM_ ec2-user@_PUBLIC_IP_

Connect to database

ssh to machine
list all docker containers

docker ps

copy container id for mariadb:latest
connect to the container

docker exec -it _CONTAINER_ID_

startup MySQL CLI

mysql -u _APP_USER_FROM_ENV_ -p
Enter password:

select the app database

show databases;
use _DB_NAME_ENV_;
show tables;

Connect to app

ssh to machine
list all docker containers

docker ps

copy container id for app:latest
connect to the container

docker exec -it _CONTAINER_ID_ /bin/bash

list files - should be in the app root directory

ls




docker exec -it _CONTAINER_ID_