On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:15 PM MusikAnimal <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi! Most tools query just a single db at a time, so I don't think this
> will be a massive problem. However some such as Global
> Contribs[0] and GUC[1] can theoretically query all of them from a single
> request. Creating new connections on-the-fly seems doable in production,
> the issue is how to work on these tools in a local environment. Currently
> the recommendation is to use a SSH tunnel to the desired host,[2] such
> as enwiki.analytics.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs. Surely we can't do this same port
> forwarding for 900+ connections.
>
> Any ideas? Perhaps there's some way to make a host that automatically
> forwards to the correct one, solely for developer use? Or will development
> of such global tools need to happen in the Cloud Services environment?
>

Can't you just tunnel to the login server and connect by hostname from
there?
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