<p>I have a Java pod application which connect to CosmosDB using the default connection string. The pod runs perfectly on my local minikube. But it has connection exception when I deploy it to my AKS.</p>

<p>The pod keep crashing with this MongoDB error.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Timed out after 30000 ms while waiting for server that matches...
  Client view of cluster state is ... xxx.documents.azure.com:10255</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Looks like it cannot reach the CosmosDB. At first I think it is because the default Network security rules block the outgoing port 10255. Then I add a NSG to that resource group. Add the outgoing rule on port 10255. It does not solve the problem.</p>

<p>Then I stumble upon this article. <a href="https://docs.bitnami.com/kubernetes/how-to/deploy-mean-cosmosdb-osba-aks/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CosmosDB on AKS using OSBA</a>
Is it the only way? do I have to use OSBA to access a public CosmosDB?</p>

<p>Connection string copy from Azure portal</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>mongodb://mycompany:some_base64_encrypted_stuff@mycompany.documents.azure.com:10255/?ssl=true&amp;replicaSet=globaldb</p>
</blockquote>

<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/maxiwu/3a151580801b6b2d7877bc77c15b405f" rel="nofollow noreferrer">error log of my pod</a></p>

<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong><br>
turns out the spring-boot-starter 2.1.0 is using mongodb-driver 3.8.2.
the mongodb-driver appends :27017 to my connection string. I have updated it to 3.10.2. Now that the connection string is correct. My program running in Kubernetes is giving me UnknownHostException mydoc.documents.azure.com.
I am guessing there could be a problem caused by build docker image in windows and then run it on alpine.</p>

<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong><br>
I think I am getting very close to the answer. The problem is from the kubernetes cluster. My cluster contains two nodes. I create another cluster with single node. Deploy my program to it and it connects to CosmosDB without error.
But I do not know how to debug kubernetes cluster.</p>

Maxi Wu
<p>if you are using network policies, you can use the sample network policy to allow all egress traffic:</p>

<pre><code>apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
  name: allow-all
spec:
  podSelector: {}
  egress:
  - {}
  policyTypes:
  - Egress
</code></pre>

<p>If you are not using Network policies, connection should just work, you dont need OSBA. You can fine tune the network policy later to make it more restrictive.</p>

<p><a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/</a></p>

<p>ps. if you are using istio with certain settings your outbound requests will be also blocker, you'd need to account for that as well</p>
