Only when trying to connect to my Azure DB from Python 3.7 running in a OpenShift container (FROM rhel7:latest) I see the following error:
sqlalchemy.exc.DBAPIError: (pyodbc.Error) ('IM004', "[IM004][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_HENV failed (0) (SQLDriverConnect)
I tried the exact same code in Docker on my MAC, Windows and a RHEL7 Virtualbox running the RHEL7 base container - it always works! The problem is only in my container running in OpenShift! I checked that I can telnet to my Azure DB server in 1433 from Openshift.
I enabled the ODBC logs as well but there is no more information than the above error.
What else should I check?
Here is how I set up the MSODBC driver in my Dockerfile:
RUN curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/prod.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/mssql-release.repo && \
yum remove unixODBC-utf16 unixODBC-utf16-devel && \
ACCEPT_EULA=Y yum install -y msodbcsql17 && \
yum install -y unixODBC-devel
And here is the code that throws the error:
inside modules.database:
pyodbc_connstring_safe = 'DRIVER={{ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server}};SERVER='+config.settings["DB_HOST"]+\
';PORT=1433;DATABASE='+config.settings["DB_NAME"]+';UID='+config.usernames["database"]+\
';PWD={};MARS_Connection=Yes'
if config.settings["debug"]:
print("Using DB connection string: {}".format(pyodbc_connstring_safe.format("SAFE_DB_PASS")))
pyodbc_connstring = pyodbc_connstring_safe.format(config.passwords["database"])
Base = declarative_base()
quoted = urllib.parse.quote_plus(pyodbc_connstring)
def get_engine():
return create_engine('mssql+pyodbc:///?odbc_connect={}'.format(quoted), echo=config.settings["debug"], pool_pre_ping=True)
Inside my flask app (the error gets thrown in the call to 'has_table'):
@app.route("/baselinedb", methods=["POST"])
def create_db():
from modules.database import Base
engine = database.get_engine()
if not engine.dialect.has_table(engine, database.get_db_object_name("BaselineDefinition"), schema = 'dbo'):
Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
db.session.commit()
return "OK"
As I mentioned in the beginning, the same Dockerfile gives me a working Container in Docker either locally on Mac or Windows or inside a RHEL7 VM. Thanks for having a look!