I have a web app that I have built and am hosting with my own provider. I am wanting to connect this to a Google Cloud SQL database. What is the best way to do this?
I spoke with my hosting provider and they stated that they have no IP addresses / ranges they can give me to setup with GCSQL.
Any help on this would be appreciated. Sorry if this questions is completely simple and not complicated at all.
Connect using the instance IP address provided by Google Cloud SQL (link). Be sure to use SSL.
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So I possibly have a dumb question about MongoDB hosting. I'm learning the MERN stack and can't figure out how to host my app. Most of the tutorials I've seen use Heroku I believe, but it's just yet another service or thing to learn or manage. I've used Postman to verify the code works. And yes I've googled this, which only confused me more.
I have several Dreamhost domains, but can't find much info on using it to host MongoDB. Is it possible to use my current host or do I HAVE to point the DNS or whatever to another server/service, or just plain move my domain to a different provider?
Also, I've got a client/front-end directory and an api/server directory in my root folder. Is that standard practice, do I need to upload them to different hosts, merge them or what? I cannot for the life of me get the backend to work.
Edit/Update:Thank you for the response! Sorry im just now answering. It was a crazy week. The code itself works. I built a portfolio blog with a login/register system with express/mongodb to store users and posts. ALL my domains are on dreamhost and didn't want to spread out service providers if I could help it. I've built websites with PHP and SQL on there and it was easy. But from what I could find out MongoDB cannot be used on dreamhost servers. I ended up using heroku, which worked, although I haven't been able to point my DNS from my dreamhost domain to it yet. Currently it has a domain name of ***.herokuapp.com and is hosted on heroku. So that's where my problem is now, but still want to figure understand the why and how a little better. How is MongoDB different from SQL other than the relational aspect and why does it need something like heroku as opposed to dreamhost or blue host or godaddy?
So first thing first, you should know that MongoDb is hosted on an OS, now that can be your own system, cloud server or a service provider.
Domain name are nothing but just a pointer to your actual server. So you have to host your MondoDb somewhere, whether that be a service like Mongo Atlas or you have to spin up your own server on digitalocean, AWS, gcp etc.
For that need to see what are you actually doing, can't comment without having a look at your code. If you not comfortable sharing all the code online. You can personally chat with me.
I have a Google Cloud SQL PostgreSQL database in which I can connect by using SSL and by entering my IP address in allowed connection settings. However, I do not want to list all the IP addresses that is going to connect to this database (because I do not know all the IP addresses). I have around 15 people which I want them to login to my database using QGIS and they should be able to change the data as this is a research. Security is not a big issue as this database will be online for a very short period of time. What connection method can you suggest? The users are not very proficient so I need to setup everything.
I hope you're doing fine.
I would like to suggest to set the connections with the Cloud SQL proxy as it will provide the security needed without using ssl or the need of authorize any network. so basically the set up is to:
Enable the API
Install the proxy client on your local machine
Determine how you will authenticate the proxy
If required by your authentication method, create a service account
Also you can find the steps on "Connecting to Cloud SQL from external applications"
Hope this works for you as I have never used it with QGIS but I believe that as you are using a proxy it won't be hard from there to use it with QGIS as if you connected to a local server.
We want to deploy our application on a cloud inside our corporate network so that it can be used to test APIs that exist within that network. We do not want to allow public access to this application nor to the internal APIs.
I've looked at deploying ICP internally onto resources (VMs) we've made available, but am wondering if IBM Cloud Dedicated is the better solution since I believe it's closer to IBM Cloud, which is where we've deployed our public-facing application.
IBM Cloud Dedicated is a single-tenant cloud environment, but it's hosted in an IBM data centre, so it might not meet your requirements. It can use VPN to securely connect to the local data centre - but that's also possible with public cloud, using the Secure Gateway. Depending on the sensitivity of the application, public cloud and secure gateway could be a good solution.
If you do want something inside the corporate nework, IBM Cloud Private (ICP) is a good choice. It's a significant part of IBM's hybrid cloud guidance so I personally wouldn't worry too much about technical differences between it and the public cloud.
I've created one instance on Google Cloud with PostgreSql and I've connected the data studio with this database adding all the addresses specified in white list specified at link below
[https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/7288010?hl=en]
With that solution I have to open access to my database to a lot of addresses. And this issue, associated to the fact that SSL is not supported is
a big lack of security.
Is there any different way to use google data studio for reports?
Maybe using CloudSqlProxy and considering google data studio as an external application from the GC environment?
Thanks for cooperation
Michele
I am assuming you are concerned about data being exposed due to the lack of support for SSL. Though that is a valid concern in a lot of cases, for your specific use case, it should not matter:
All the ip addresses that you have to whitelist here are Google Server/infrastructure addresses.
Data Studio as an application runs on Google's servers. So the communication between Google Cloud SQL and Google Data Studio will be entirely within Google's network. Even if it is not SSL, that traffic should not be exposed to outside world.
The connection between any client computer (where report is being viewed) and Data Studio will always be HTTPS.
However, if you still want to have an SSL connection, you can create a Community Connector in Apps Script that uses the JDBC service to connect to databases using SSL.
Try using client.key in both client fields.
The solution posted below helped here,
https://support.google.com/datastudio/thread/8739014?hl=en
I have just moved my wordpress website from Hostgator to GCP. Everything went very smoothly. I chnaged my name servers with Godaddy, create some DNS zone stuff in GCP and all works well.
Now it is time to setup my emails for the same domain in Google Cloud Platform.
I assume this also inolves some DNS MX stuff, but I am unable to find a whole lot about the process.
Does Google Cloud have email hsoting? If anyone can give me a hint so I can dive deeper.
Thanks in advance.
Ross
Google offers email service which you can sign up on https://gsuite.google.com
After you have signed up you need to start entering the mx record which are mentioned in https://support.google.com/a/answer/174125?hl=en make sure you follow the records mentioned in the link even the priority will be vital.