--- title: Connect With flyctl objective: Access your Postgres app from the terminal using flyctl. layout: framework_docs order: 1 toc: false --- To connect to your Postgres database from outside your Fly organization, you need a WireGuard connection. However, flyctl on your local machine can connect using [user-mode WireGuard](/blog/our-user-mode-wireguard-year/) magic, without you having to set up your own WireGuard tunnel. For a `psql` shell, you can just use the [`fly postgres connect`](/docs/flyctl/postgres-connect/) command: ```cmd fly postgres connect -a <postgres-app-name> ``` You can also forward the server port to your local system with [`fly proxy`](/docs/flyctl/proxy/): ```cmd fly proxy 5432 -a <postgres-app-name> ``` Then connect to your Postgres server at localhost:5432. Using `psql` again, as a trivial example, it would look like this: ```cmd psql postgres://postgres:<password>@localhost:5432 ``` If you already have something else listening on port 5432, you can run this instead: ```cmd fly proxy 15432:5432 -a <postgres-app-name> ``` Then connect to localhost:15432. As with all your Fly apps, you can get a root console on your app's VM using [fly ssh](/docs/flyctl/ssh/).

fly postgres connect -a <postgres-app-name>

fly proxy 5432 -a <postgres-app-name>

psql postgres://postgres:<password>@localhost:5432

fly proxy 15432:5432 -a <postgres-app-name>