Managing your MySQL databases with Pulumi

Linio Engineering — Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most critical components of an application’s infrastructure is its database, and one of the most popular databases in use in the cloud today is MySQL.

Pulumi can already be used to create managed MySQL instances in a wide variety of clouds, including AWS, Azure and GCP. In addition to this, Pulumi recently added support for managing the MySQL instances themselves to manage permissions, create databases, and other common tasks.

In this post, we’ll walk through a quick tutorial of how to use this new Pulumi MySQL provider to manage existing and new MySQL databases.

Setup

Create a new Pulumi program:

$ pulumi new aws-typescript

Install the MySQL provider SDK:

$ npm add @pulumi/mysql

Create the database in index.ts as shown in either of the two examples below.

Examples

Example 1: Using an existing MySQL server

In this scenario, the following configuration is required:

Note: please use your own endpoint, username and password.

$ pulumi config set mysql:endpoint localhost:3306
$ pulumi config set mysql:username root
$ pulumi config set --secret mysql:password foo
$ pulumi config set --secret jdoePassword hunter2

In this example, we will create a database in the previously configured MySQL server, add a user (jdoe) with the given password and grant this user SELECT and UPDATE access to it.

import * as mysql from '@pulumi/mysql';
import * as pulumi from '@pulumi/pulumi';

const config = new pulumi.Config();
const jdoePassword = config.requireSecret(‘jdoePassword’);

const database = new mysql.Database('sample', {
 name: 'sample',
});

const user = new mysql.User('jdoe', {
 user: 'jdoe',
 // Since the password is a Pulumi Secret, it will be encrypted and not stored in plaintext
 plaintextPassword: jdoePassword,
});

new mysql.Grant('jdoe', {
 user: user.user,
 host: user.host,
 database: database.name,
 privileges: ['SELECT', 'UPDATE'],
});

Now deploy the infrastructure to provision the database and user:

$ pulumi up

Example 2: Using a RDS instance

In this scenario, the following configuration is required:

$ pulumi config set mysqlUsername rootUser
$ pulumi config set --secret mysqlPassword rootPassword

In this example, we will create an AWS RDS Instance to be our MySQL server, create a “first-class” provider to manage the MySQL database, and add a user (jdoe) with the given password and grant this user SELECT and UPDATE access to it:

Note: This requires the default VPC security group to allow access from where the Pulumi deployment is being executed.

import * as mysql from '@pulumi/mysql';
import * as aws from '@pulumi/aws';
import * as pulumi from '@pulumi/pulumi';

const config = new pulumi.Config();
const mysqlUser = config.require('mysqlUser');
const mysqlPassword = config.requireSecret('mysqlPassword');

const rds = new aws.rds.Instance('sample', {
 engine: 'mysql',
 username: mysqlUser,
 password: mysqlPassword,
 availabilityZone: 'us-east-1b',
 instanceClass: 'db.t2.micro',
 allocatedStorage: 20,
 deletionProtection: true,

 // For a VPC cluster, you will also need the following:
 // dbSubnetGroupName: 'sg-db01-replication-1',
 // vpcSecurityGroupIds: ['sg-c1c63aba'],
});

const mysqlProvider = new mysql.Provider('mysql', {
 endpoint: rds.endpoint,
 username: rds.username,
 password: rds.password,
});

const database = new mysql.Database('sample', {
 name: 'sample',
}, {
 provider: mysqlProvider
});

const user = new mysql.User('jdoe', {
 user: "jdoe",
 host: "example.com",
 plaintextPassword: "password",
}, {
 provider: mysqlProvider
});

new mysql.Grant('jdoe', {
 user: user.user,
 host: user.host,
 database: database.name,
 privileges: ["SELECT", "UPDATE"],
}, {
 provider: mysqlProvider
});

Now deploy the infrastructure:

$ pulumi up

Wrapping Up Pulumi allows you to manage your MySQL cloud instances in AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as manage MySQL databases, users and more. Together, this enables end-to-end provisioning of your application’s database infrastructure. Read more about the Pulumi MySQL provider.

We’ve only shown a little bit of what Pulumi can do. If you need any help, feel free to create an issue on GitHub or join the Pulumi Community Slack channel.

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Managing your MySQL databases with Pulumi

Setup

Examples

Example 1: Using an existing MySQL server

Example 2: Using a RDS instance