Our CF hosted application (java) has crashed because of a database issue. The database service (mariaDB) is still running but I cannot connect to it using my service key and ssh because the app is down. Is there any way to access a service on cloud foundry directly without having a running app?
I cannot get the app running again, because I cannot access the DB, and I cannot access the DB because the app is down. You see the problem. We are using Swisscom's CF.
My findings coincide with @SandroMathys. We created an "empty" proxy-app borrowing from this guide: https://github.com/swisscom/docs-appcloud-service-offerings/blob/master/migrate-mariadb-to-mariadbent.html.md.erb
The gist of it is:
$ git clone https://github.com/swisscom/cf-default-app-staticfile.git
$ cd cf-default-app-staticfile
$ cf push proxy-app --no-route
Afterwards:
cf ssh as usual to open up a tunnel and access the service