Posts Tagged mysql

Deploying a MySQL schema using Dynamic Providers

Deploying a MySQL schema using Dynamic Providers

In our previous post, we created a Python voting application using Flask and Redis. This blog post will explore creating a MySQL database and initializing it with a schema and data. What seems to be a simple step is much more interesting than it appears, because Pulumi’s MySQL provider does not support creating and populating tables. To do it, we will extend it with a Dynamic Provider.

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Managing your MySQL databases with Pulumi

Managing your MySQL databases with Pulumi

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.

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