Enable Python to Connect to MySQL via SSH Tunnelling

Question

I'm using MySqldb with Python 2.7 to allow Python to make connections to another MySQL server

import MySQLdb
db = MySQLdb.connect(host="sql.domain.com",
     user="dev", 
      passwd="*******", 
      db="appdb")

Instead of connecting normally like this, how can the connection be made through a SSH tunnel using SSH key pairs?

The SSH tunnel should ideally be opened by Python. The SSH tunnel host and the MySQL server are the same machine.

Answer 1

Only this worked for me

import pymysql
import paramiko
import pandas as pd
from paramiko import SSHClient
from sshtunnel import SSHTunnelForwarder
from os.path import expanduser

home = expanduser('~')
mypkey = paramiko.RSAKey.from_private_key_file(home + pkeyfilepath)
# if you want to use ssh password use - ssh_password='your ssh password', bellow

sql_hostname = 'sql_hostname'
sql_username = 'sql_username'
sql_password = 'sql_password'
sql_main_database = 'db_name'
sql_port = 3306
ssh_host = 'ssh_hostname'
ssh_user = 'ssh_username'
ssh_port = 22
sql_ip = '1.1.1.1.1'

with SSHTunnelForwarder(
        (ssh_host, ssh_port),
        ssh_username=ssh_user,
        ssh_pkey=mypkey,
        remote_bind_address=(sql_hostname, sql_port)) as tunnel:
    conn = pymysql.connect(host='127.0.0.1', user=sql_username,
            passwd=sql_password, db=sql_main_database,
            port=tunnel.local_bind_port)
    query = '''SELECT VERSION();'''
    data = pd.read_sql_query(query, conn)
    conn.close()