Configure Cloud SQL (MySQL) in Application Design Center
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Cloud SQL (MySQL) is a fully-managed database service that helps you set
up, maintain, manage, and administer your relational databases on Google Cloud.
For more information, see the following:
This document describes the connections and parameters you can configure when
using App Design Center to create a Cloud SQL for MySQL
instance. The configuration parameters are based on theterraform-google-sql-dbTerraform module.
Component connections
The following table includes the components that you can connect to a
Cloud SQL (MySQL) instance, and the resulting updates to your application and
its generated Terraform code.
Initial root password when the instance is created.
Machine
Select a machine series and type for your instance. The options that you select determine available storage type and configuration options. You can't change the machine series after you create your instance.
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