diff --git a/Tiltfile b/Tiltfile
index eb71dad6..ec6e80ba 100644
--- a/Tiltfile
+++ b/Tiltfile
@@ -102,7 +102,11 @@ k8s_resource(
     labels=["OnCallBackend"],
 )
 k8s_resource(workload="redis-master", labels=["OnCallDeps"])
-k8s_resource(workload="mariadb", labels=["OnCallDeps"])
+k8s_resource(
+    workload="mariadb",
+    port_forwards='3307:3306', # <host_port>:<container_port>
+    labels=["OnCallDeps"],
+)
 
 
 # name all tilt resources after the k8s object namespace + name