Documentation: No explanation for endpoint when defining initial credentials in cluster

[richard-copperdata]

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In section 4 for defining credentials in the cluster of the Deploy on Kubernetes guide, there is no indication of what endpoint to use to make the initial connection.

Are we supposed to exec into the pod first and issue this command or is there a way to do it locally? Either way, what endpoint is supposed to replace ... in http://...?

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[richard-copperdata]

I figured this out, though I'm not sure if there is a better way that could be added to the documentation.

1. Start a proxy server via kubectl:

k proxy --port=8080
Starting to serve on 127.0.0.1:8080

2. Access the surrealdb-tikv service via proxy (i.e. replacing the ... in the current docs):

surreal sql -u root -p 'StrongSecretPassword!' -e http://localhost:8080/api/v1/namespaces/default/services/surrealdb-tikv:8000/proxy/

#
#  Welcome to the SurrealDB SQL shell
...

Hope this helps someone else that might be stuck. I'll try to get a PR for adding this as a note to this section.