Configure incoming connections of a Public Cloud Databases for MySQL service

Objective

Public Cloud Databases allow you to focus on building and deploying cloud applications while OVHcloud takes care of the database infrastructure and maintenance in operational conditions.

This guide explains how to configure your MySQL instance to accept incoming connections.

Requirements

• A Public Cloud project in your OVHcloud account
• A MySQL database running on your OVHcloud Public Cloud Databases (this guide can help you to meet this requirement)

OVHcloud Control Panel Access

• Direct link: Public Cloud Projects
• Navigation path: Public Cloud > Select your project

Instructions

Configure your MySQL instance to accept incoming connections

Before making a connection, we need to verify that our MySQL instance is correctly configured.

Click on Databases in the left-hand navigation bar and select your MySQL instance.

Step 1: Verify your user roles and password

Select the Users tab. Verify that you have a user with sufficient rights and a configured password. If you don't remember the user's password, you can either create a new user or regenerate the password of an existing user.

This first user avnadmin is pre-configured during the service installation and comes with the following grants:

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, RELOAD, PROCESS, REFERENCES, INDEX, ALTER, SHOW DATABASES, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES, EXECUTE, REPLICATION SLAVE, REPLICATION CLIENT, CREATE VIEW, SHOW VIEW, CREATE ROUTINE, ALTER ROUTINE, CREATE USER, EVENT, TRIGGER ON *.* TO "avnadmin"@"%" WITH GRANT OPTION

GRANT REPLICATION_APPLIER,ROLE_ADMIN ON *.* TO "avnadmin"@"%" WITH GRANT OPTION

You can add more users by clicking on the button Add user.

Enter a username then click Create User.

Step 2: Authorise incoming connections from the MySQL client

Fill in the IP address or CIDR block to whitelist and click the + button.

Validate the changes by clicking the Save changes button.

Collect required information

Select the Dashboard tab to find the required login credentials in the Connection information section.

Select the Databases tab to get the database name.

Select the Users tab to get the username.

Go further

Visit the Github examples repository to find how to connect to your database with several languages.

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