Connect to Cloud SQL for SQL Server from App Engine flexible environment

Learn how to deploy a sample app on App Engine flexible environment connected to a SQL Server instance by using the Google Cloud console and a client app.

Assuming that you complete all the steps in a timely manner, the resources created in this quickstart typically cost less than one dollar (USD).

Before you begin

  1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.
  2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

    Go to project selector

  3. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  4. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

    Go to project selector

  5. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  6. Enable the Cloud APIs necessary to run a Cloud SQL sample app on App Engine flexible environment.

    Console

    Click the button below to enable the APIs required for this quickstart.

    Enable APIs

    This enables the following APIs:

    • Cloud SQL Admin API
    • Compute Engine API
    • Cloud Build API
    • Cloud Logging API

    By clicking the button, you also enable the Google App Engine Flexible Environment.

    gcloud

    Click the following button to open Cloud Shell, which provides command-line access to your Google Cloud resources directly from the browser. Cloud Shell can be used to run the gcloud commands presented throughout this quickstart.

    Open Cloud Shell

    Run the following gcloud command using Cloud Shell:

    gcloud services enable appengineflex.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com \
    compute.googleapis.com cloudbuild.googleapis.com logging.googleapis.com

    This command enables the following APIs:

    • Cloud SQL Admin API
    • Compute Engine API
    • Cloud Build API
    • Cloud Logging API

    By running the above command, you also enable the Google App Engine Flexible Environment.

Set up Cloud SQL

Create a Cloud SQL instance

Create a database

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud SQL Instances page.

    Go to Cloud SQL Instances

  2. Select quickstart-instance.
  3. From the SQL navigation menu, select Databases.
  4. Click Create database.
    1. In the Database name field of the New database dialog box, enter quickstart-db.
    2. Click Create.

gcloud

Run the gcloud sql databases create command to create a database.

gcloud sql databases create quickstart-db --instance=quickstart-instance

Deploy a sample app to App Engine flexible environment

Create an App Engine app

Create an App Engine app in your Google Cloud project. This enables the App Engine service, creates a default App Engine app, and creates an App Engine service account that you use to connect to Cloud SQL.

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the App Engine page.

    Go to App Engine

  2. Click Create application.
  3. From the Select a region drop-down menu, select us-central.
  4. Click Next.
  5. After the Get started page appears, scroll to the bottom of the page.
  6. Click the I'll do this later link.

gcloud

  1. Run the following gcloud app create command to create an App Engine app:
  2. gcloud app create
  3. When prompted to choose the region where you want your App Engine app located, enter the numeric choice for us-central.

Configure the App Engine service account

Configure the service account used by App Engine so that it has the Cloud SQL Client role. By assigning the role to the service account, the account has permissions to connect to Cloud SQL.

Console

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the IAM page.

    Go to IAM

  2. For the service account named App Engine default service account, click the pencil icon.
  3. Click Add another role.
  4. Add the Role named Cloud SQL Client.
  5. Click Save.

gcloud

  1. Run the following gcloud command to get a list of your project's service accounts:
    gcloud iam service-accounts list
  2. Copy the EMAIL of the App Engine service account.
  3. Run the following command to add the Cloud SQL Client role to App Engine service account:
    gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding YOUR_PROJECT_ID \
      --member="serviceAccount:SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL" \
      --role="roles/cloudsql.client"

Configure and deploy a sample app for Cloud SQL

Now that you created a Cloud SQL instance and database, and you configured the App Engine service account so that it has permissions to connect to Cloud SQL, you can configure and deploy a sample app to connect to your Cloud SQL instance.

Clean up

To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for the resources used on this page, follow these steps.

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud SQL Instances page.

    Go to Cloud SQL Instances

  2. Select the quickstart-instance instance to open the Instance details page.
  3. In the icon bar at the top of the page, click Delete.
  4. In the Delete instance dialog box, type quickstart-instance, and then click Delete to delete the instance. Disabling your app stops it from running instances and serving requests. If your app is processing a request, your app completes the request before being disabled.

To disable an App Engine app and retain its data, do the following:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Settings page:

    Go to Settings

  2. In the Application settings tab, click Disable application.

  3. In the App ID field, enter the ID of the app you want to disable, and then click Disable.

Optional cleanup steps

If you're not using the Cloud SQL client role that you assigned to the Compute Engine service account, you can remove it.

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the IAM page.

    Go to IAM

  2. Click the edit icon (which looks like a pencil) for the IAM account named Compute Engine default service account.
  3. Delete the Cloud SQL client role.
  4. Click Save.

If you're not using the APIs that were enabled as part of this quickstart, you can disable them.

  • APIs that were enabled within this quickstart:
    • Compute Engine API
    • Cloud SQL Admin API
    • Cloud Run API
    • Container Registry API
    • Cloud Build API
  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the APIs page.

    Go to APIs

  2. Select any API that you would like to disable and then click the Disable API button.

What's next

Based on your needs, you can learn more about creating Cloud SQL instances.

You also can learn about creating SQL Server users and databases for your Cloud SQL instance.

For more information about pricing, see Cloud SQL for SQL Server pricing.

Learn more about:

  • Configuring your Cloud SQL instance with a public IP address.
  • Configuring your Cloud SQL instance with a private IP address.

Additionally, you can learn about connecting to a Cloud SQL instance from other Google Cloud products: