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Brewit supports SSH tunneling for the following data sources if they are hosted on a private network:

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Getting Started with SSH Tunnels

You can configure SSH tunneling when creating a new data source or update the configuration of an existing resource.
1

Select the Enable SSH tunnel checkbox in the Advanced Options section.

Enable SSH tunnel
2

Select or create a new tunnel

If you have an existing tunnel, select it from the dropdown. Otherwise, go to tunnels page create a new tunnel.Select tunnelEnter the Bastion host and Bastion port with which Brewit connects, then download Brewit’s public key.
3

Add public key to your host

Create a user account for Brewit. Below is a sample script run for different environments.
ec2-user@bastion:~$ sudo adduser brewit --password NP
To authorize Brewit to connect to the host, add the public keys from step two on a new line in /home/brewit/.ssh/authorized_keys.
# Login as root
sudo su

# Create the authorized_keys file if it does not exist yet
mkdir -p /home/brewit/.ssh
touch /home/brewit/.ssh/authorized_keys

# Use your favorite editor to add Brewit's public key to the file
vim /home/brewit/.ssh/authorized_keys

# Set permissions on the authorized_keys file
chmod 644 /home/brewit/.ssh/authorized_keys

# Change owner of authorized_keys file to Brewit
chown brewit:brewit /home/brewit/.ssh/authorized_keys
4

Test database connection

Once that has been successfully configured, you can now test the connection to your database.
If you have any issues with the SSH tunnel, please contact [email protected] for support.