I'm having some trouble with my AWS Kubernetes instance.
I'm trying to get my django instances to connect to the RDS service via the DB endpoint.
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.contrib.gis.db.backends.postgis',
'NAME': os.environ['NAME'],
'USER': os.environ['USER'],
'PASSWORD': os.environ['PASSWORD'],
'HOST': os.environ['HOST'],
'PORT': os.environ['PORT']
}
}
The host string would resemble this service.key.region.rds.amazonaws.com and is being passed to the container via env in the deploy.yml
containers:
- name: service
env:
- name: HOST
value: service.key.region.rds.amazonaws.com
This set up works locally in kubernetes but not when I put it in the cluster I have on AWS. It returns the following error instead:
django.db.utils.OperationalError: could not translate host name
Any suggestions or am I missing something in how AWS likes handling things?