# Can we access mysql operator without port-forwarding?

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/can-we-access-mysql-operator-without-port-forwarding/8437>\
**Category:** Percona Operator for MySQL\
**Created:** [December 23, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/can-we-access-mysql-operator-without-port-forwarding/8437 "2020-12-23T23:51:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![saloni24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@saloni24](https://forums.percona.com/u/saloni24)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/can-we-access-mysql-operator-without-port-forwarding/8437/1 "2020-12-23T23:51:03Z")

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in case we have some VM on gcp ? and with normal mysql host??

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**Author:** ![Sergey\_Pronin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sergey_pronin/32/14887_2.png) [@Sergey\_Pronin](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sergey_Pronin)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/can-we-access-mysql-operator-without-port-forwarding/8437/2 "2020-12-24T01:22:22Z")

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Hello @saloni24 ,

I’m not sure what are the inputs here.

1. Are you deploying your mysql with Percona Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster?

2. Are you deploying it on Google Kubernetes Engine?

If so, we have HAProxy or ProxySQL as the entry gates for the cluster. You can use [serviceType](https://www.percona.com/doc/kubernetes-operator-for-pxc/operator.html#haproxy-servicetype) section to expose these in any Kubernetes way.

Like setting spec.haproxy.servicetype: Loadbalancer will automatically create a Loadbalancer on GCP and a corresponding service in Kubernetes.