Managing User Data for Personalized AI Services with GCP SQL

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To manage user data for personalized AI services using Google Cloud SQL, you'll need a SQL database where you can store and query user data. We'll go through the process of setting up a Cloud SQL instance, creating a database within that instance, and creating a user who has access to that database.

You'll need the following resources from Google Cloud:

1. **Cloud SQL Database Instance**: This is the computing instance running the database engine.
2. **SQL Database**: This is the actual database within the SQL instance where user data will be stored.
3. **SQL User**: This is a user account within the SQL instance that has permissions to access and manage the database.

Here's how to create these resources using Pulumi:

### 1. Cloud SQL Database Instance

A Cloud SQL instance is a managed database service that provides you with a SQL database instance running on Google Cloud. It supports various database engines; for this example, let's use MySQL.

### 2. SQL Database

Within the instance, you need to create a database where your AI services' user data will be stored.

### 3. SQL User

Finally, create a user for your application to connect to the database instance and perform operations on the user data.

Below is the Pulumi program written in Python that sets up these components:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_gcp as gcp

# The name of your GCP project
project = 'your-gcp-project'

# Cloud SQL Database Instance
sql_instance = gcp.sql.DatabaseInstance("sql-instance",
    database_version="MYSQL_5_7", # Choose the database version according to your needs
    settings=gcp.sql.DatabaseInstanceSettingsArgs(
        tier="db-f1-micro", # Choose the machine type based on your requirement
    ),
    project=project
)

# Create a database inside the SQL instance
database = gcp.sql.Database("database",
    name="users_database", # Name of the database
    instance=sql_instance.name,
    project=project
)

# Create a SQL user that can be used by your application to access the database
sql_user = gcp.sql.User("sql-user",
    name="ai_app_user", # Name of the user
    instance=sql_instance.name,
    password="supersecretpassword", # Strong password for the user
    project=project
)

# Exporting the IP address and connection name of the SQL instance
pulumi.export("instance_ip_address", sql_instance.ip_addresses.apply(lambda addrs: addrs[0].ip_address))
pulumi.export("sql_connection_name", sql_instance.connection_name)
```

In the above code:

- We create a Cloud SQL instance using `gcp.sql.DatabaseInstance`.
- We then create a database within this instance using `gcp.sql.Database`.
- We create a user with a name and a password using `gcp.sql.User`.
- We export the IP address and connection name of the SQL instance, which can be used to connect to the database.

Make sure to replace `'your-gcp-project'` with your actual GCP project ID, `users_database` with the desired database name, `ai_app_user` with your desired user name, and `supersecretpassword` with a strong password of your choosing.

Note: This code assumes you have already configured the Pulumi CLI and have authenticated with GCP. Always handle passwords and secrets securely; here we've used plain text for simplicity. In a production environment, consider using a secret management system like Pulumi's config secrets or Google Cloud's Secret Manager.