# External cluster connection

**URL:** <https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/external-cluster-connection/587>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [December 13, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/external-cluster-connection/587 "2019-12-13T13:48:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![busybruner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@busybruner](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/busybruner)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/external-cluster-connection/587/1 "2019-12-13T13:48:42Z")

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Hey folks, I am running yugabyte against kubernetes in google cloud.  
I followed the instructions at[https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/deploy/public-clouds/gcp/#gke](https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/deploy/public-clouds/gcp/#gke).  
How can I connect to this cluster using psql from outside?

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**Author:** ![Alan\_Caldera](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/alan_caldera/32/91_2.png) [@Alan\_Caldera](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/Alan_Caldera)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/external-cluster-connection/587/2 "2019-12-13T14:59:26Z")

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If you issue a `kubectl get services` you should get a response that looks something like this:

```auto
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
kubernetes ClusterIP 10.47.240.1 <none> 443/TCP 3m11s
yb-db-service LoadBalancer 10.47.243.104 34.74.95.111 9000:32422/TCP,9042:31176/TCP,6379:30622/TCP,5433:31878/TCP 108s
yb-master-ui LoadBalancer 10.47.245.167 35.231.155.94 7000:32123/TCP 111s
yb-masters ClusterIP None <none> 7000/TCP,7100/TCP 112s
yb-tservers ClusterIP None <none> 9000/TCP,9100/TCP,9042/TCP,6379/TCP,5433/TCP 109s

```

The yb-db-service is a LoadBalancer with an external-ip address (in this case `34.74.95.111`) that you can connect to with `psql -h 34.74.95.111 -p 5433 -U yugabyte`.

Hope this helps.  
–Alan