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:
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Connect to the pod itself:
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Install sqlcmd tool:
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Connect to your database server, with the following sql command, and your credentials:
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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.
