Connecting milvus host to aws instance ip

[Sushanti99]

Can somebody here help me with how to connect Milvus(host="...", port='19530') to a milvus running on docker on an ec2 instance? I can't seem to find anything in the documentation either

[stephenleo]

I run it on GCP Compute Engine VM without any issue. Just expose port 19530 using -p and use the internal IP address for host in Milvus(host="...", port='19530').

P.S. I'm accessing from another VM within the same GCP project

sudo docker run -d --name milvus_cpu_0.11 \
-p 19530:19530 \
-p 19121:19121 \
-v /home/$USER/milvus/db:/var/lib/milvus/db \
-v /home/$USER/milvus/conf:/var/lib/milvus/conf \
-v /home/$USER/milvus/logs:/var/lib/milvus/logs \
-v /home/$USER/milvus/wal:/var/lib/milvus/wal \
milvusdb/milvus:0.11.0-cpu-d101620-4c44c0

[Sushanti99]

I tried to use the internal ip for host but it didn't connect to the server

[stephenleo]

To connect from a local system, the way I do it is by setting up ssh port forwarding. Something like below for GCP. (Not sure if this is the best way! But it works)

gcloud compute ssh --zone <your-VM-zone> <username>@<vm-internal-ip> --project <your-project> -- -L 19530:localhost:19530

After this, you can run Milvus(host='localhost', port='19530') on your local

-L is for ssh port forwarding Link

[stephenleo]

I think this is the AWS equivalent: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-ssh-tunnel-local.html

[Sushanti99]

Got this to work. Thank you so much for the quick response

[stephenleo]

If the answer worked, pls help to "select as answer" so that the question shows up as answered.