AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise workloads, including high transaction rates, large data sizes, and real-time analytics. For more information, see AlloyDB overview .
This document describes the parameters you can configure when using App Design Center to create an AlloyDB cluster and instances. The configuration parameters are based on the terraform-google-alloy-db module.
Before you begin
Create a private services access configuration in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network that resides in the same Google Cloud project where you'll create your AlloyDB instances.
For more information, see the following:
Component connections
You can connect the following components to an AlloyDB instance:
- The Compute Engine instances can connect to the AlloyDB instance.
- The AlloyDB resource metadata information is added to the instance template.
- The
roles/alloydb.adminrole is added to the Compute Engine instance template service account.
- The Cloud Run service can connect to the AlloyDB instance.
- The AlloyDB resource metadata is added to the Cloud Run environment variables.
- The AlloyDB
roles/alloydb.adminrole is added to the Cloud Run service account.
Required configuration parameters
The following table describes the required parameters for configuring an AlloyDB cluster and a primary instance:
| Parameter name |
Description and constraint information |
Background information |
|---|---|---|
| Project ID |
The project where you want to deploy the AlloyDB instance. |
Configure components |
| Cluster ID |
The ID of the AlloyDB cluster. |
Create cluster and its primary instance |
| Region |
The location where the AlloyDB cluster is deployed. | AlloyDB locations |
Optional configuration parameters
The following table describes the optional parameters for configuring an AlloyDB cluster and a primary instance:
Feature
Subfeature
Parameter name
Description and constraint information
Background information
Skip Await Major Version Upgrade
Restore Cluster

