Spring Boot UnknownHostException while connecting to RDS throgh VPC peering - java

I am getting the UnknownHostException while trying to deploy a Spring Boot application to a K8s Cluster in AWS EKS.
Scenario:
I have a AWS EKS Cluster running on a VPC (A) and the RDS is running on a VPC (B).
I have created the VPC peering connection between the two VPCs, enabling DNS resolution and configuring the routing tables accordingly.
I also created a K8s Service mapping the external RDS endpoint.
If I try to connect to the RDS instance from EKS Cluster using a busybox like this:
$ kubectl run -i --tty --rm debug --image=busybox --restart=Never -- sh
with any of the following options, it works:
/ # nc mysql-service 3306
/ # nc mysql-service.default.svc.cluster.local 3306
/ # nc xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com 3306
But when I deploy my Spring Boot application it doesn't work.
The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:488)
at com.mysql.cj.core.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:54)
at com.mysql.cj.core.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:93)
at com.mysql.cj.core.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:133)
at com.mysql.cj.core.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createCommunicationsException(ExceptionFactory.java:149)
at com.mysql.cj.mysqla.io.MysqlaSocketConnection.connect(MysqlaSocketConnection.java:83)
at com.mysql.cj.mysqla.MysqlaSession.connect(MysqlaSession.java:144)
at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectWithRetries(ConnectionImpl.java:1676)
... 58 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: mysql-service
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

I figured it out! The whole VPC Peering configuration is working. The K8s external service is also working. The problem was in my Spring Boot application.
I had configured the data source URL with an environment variable which was causing the error. For some reason, Spring doesn't resolve the host configured with an environment variable.
I just changed the spring configuration from:
spring:
datasource:
url: jdbc:mysql://${DB_HOST}:3306/db_name
to:
spring:
datasource:
url: jdbc:mysql://mysql-service:3306/db_name
and now it works!

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