See the commands below. I've first reported this to #wikimedia-cloud, and @aborrero recommended me to create a Phab ticket, so here it is.
FYI, venv and venv-bastion have the same packages installed (list is here), the only difference is that venv was created on tools-interactive, while venv-bastion was created at the bastion using virtualenv -p python3.
tools.wikinity@tools-sgebastion-07 ~/wikinity $ source venv-bastion/bin/activate (venv-bastion) tools.wikinity@tools-sgebastion-07 ~/wikinity $ cd src (venv-bastion) tools.wikinity@tools-sgebastion-07 ~/wikinity/src $ flask shell /mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/wikinity/www/python/venv-bastion/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask_sqlalchemy/__init__.py:794: FSADeprecationWarning: SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS adds significant overhead and will be disabled by default in the future. Set it to True or False to suppress this warning. 'SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS adds significant overhead and ' Sending requests with default User-Agent. Set 'user_agent' on mwoauth.flask.MWOAuth to quiet this message. Python 3.5.3 (default, Sep 27 2018, 17:25:39) [GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux App: app [production] Instance: /mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/wikinity/www/python/src/instance >>> from app import StoredMap >>> StoredMap.query.all() [] >>> (venv-bastion) tools.wikinity@tools-sgebastion-07 ~/wikinity/src $ deactivate tools.wikinity@tools-sgebastion-07 ~/wikinity/src $ webservice --backend=kubernetes python shell Defaulting container name to interactive. Use 'kubectl describe pod/interactive -n wikinity' to see all of the containers in this pod. If you don't see a command prompt, try pressing enter. $ tools.wikinity@interactive ~ $ cd wikinity tools.wikinity@interactive /data/project/wikinity/wikinity $ source venv/bin/activate (venv) tools.wikinity@interactive /data/project/wikinity/wikinity $ cd src (venv) tools.wikinity@interactive /data/project/wikinity/wikinity/src $ flask shell /data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/flask_sqlalchemy/__init__.py:794: FSADeprecationWarning: SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS adds significant overhead and will be disabled by default in the future. Set it to True or False to suppress this warning. 'SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS adds significant overhead and ' Sending requests with default User-Agent. Set 'user_agent' on mwoauth.flask.MWOAuth to quiet this message. Python 3.4.2 (default, Feb 7 2019, 06:08:06) [GCC 4.9.2] on linux App: app [production] Instance: /data/project/wikinity/www/python/src/instance >>> from app import StoredMap >>> StoredMap.query.all() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 3161, in all return list(self) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 3317, in __iter__ return self._execute_and_instances(context) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 3339, in _execute_and_instances querycontext, self._connection_from_session, close_with_result=True File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 3354, in _get_bind_args mapper=self._bind_mapper(), clause=querycontext.statement, **kw File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 3332, in _connection_from_session conn = self.session.connection(**kw) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 1123, in connection execution_options=execution_options, File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 1129, in _connection_for_bind engine, execution_options File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 430, in _connection_for_bind conn = bind._contextual_connect() File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 2226, in _contextual_connect self._wrap_pool_connect(self.pool.connect, None), File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 2262, in _wrap_pool_connect return fn() File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool/base.py", line 354, in connect return _ConnectionFairy._checkout(self) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool/base.py", line 751, in _checkout fairy = _ConnectionRecord.checkout(pool) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool/base.py", line 483, in checkout rec = pool._do_get() File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool/impl.py", line 138, in _do_get self._dec_overflow() File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/langhelpers.py", line 68, in __exit__ compat.reraise(exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/compat.py", line 129, in reraise raise value File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool/impl.py", line 135, in _do_get return self._create_connection() File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool/base.py", line 299, in _create_connection return _ConnectionRecord(self) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool/base.py", line 428, in __init__ self.__connect(first_connect_check=True) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/pool/base.py", line 640, in __connect ).exec_once(self.connection, self) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/event/attr.py", line 287, in exec_once self(*args, **kw) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/event/attr.py", line 297, in __call__ fn(*args, **kw) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/langhelpers.py", line 1443, in go return once_fn(*arg, **kw) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/strategies.py", line 199, in first_connect dialect.initialize(c) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py", line 2349, in initialize self._detect_sql_mode(connection) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py", line 2796, in _detect_sql_mode connection.execute("SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'sql_mode'"), File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 982, in execute return self._execute_text(object_, multiparams, params) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1155, in _execute_text parameters, File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1248, in _execute_context e, statement, parameters, cursor, context File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1466, in _handle_dbapi_exception util.raise_from_cause(sqlalchemy_exception, exc_info) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/compat.py", line 383, in raise_from_cause reraise(type(exception), exception, tb=exc_tb, cause=cause) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/compat.py", line 128, in reraise raise value.with_traceback(tb) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1244, in _execute_context cursor, statement, parameters, context File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py", line 552, in do_execute cursor.execute(statement, parameters) File "/data/project/wikinity/www/python/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 203, in execute raise ProgrammingError(str(m)) sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: (MySQLdb._exceptions.ProgrammingError) unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'bytes' and 'tuple' [SQL: SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'sql_mode'] (Background on this error at: http://sqlalche.me/e/f405) >>> (venv) tools.wikinity@interactive /data/project/wikinity/wikinity/src $ deactivate tools.wikinity@interactive /data/project/wikinity/wikinity/src $ logout Session ended, resume using 'kubectl attach interactive -c interactive -i -t' command when the pod is running Pod stopped. Session cannot be resumed. tools.wikinity@tools-sgebastion-07 ~/wikinity/src $