xgeek116
Preparing the production environment for deployment in GCP with Cloud SQL database
Hello,
Elixir version = 1.13.1
Phoenix version = 1.6.6
I created a REST API in Elixir/Phoenix and everything works fine with the PostgreSQL database (hosted in Google Cloud SQL), but I have some issues when configuring the deployment env, I was following this tutorial : https://shyr.io/blog/deploy-phoenix-google-app-engine
But in my project structure I didn’t find the file config/prod.secret.exs, so I created one and compiled and now I’m having error about missing : DATABASE_URL variable
In the config/dev.exs file I was configuring the database like this :
config :test_api, TestApi.Repo,
socket_dir: "/cloudsql/CONNEXTION_NAME_CLOUD_SQL",
username: "testUser",
password: "testPassword",
database: "testDB",
pool_size: 10
But in config/runtime.exs the format required is :
For example: ecto://USER:PASS@HOST/DATABASE
How can I inject the socket dir (cloudsql) inside ?
Best regards
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mstibbard
I trust you’ve solved this issue by now (or given up!!).
For anyone else that finds this, I’ve written up the complete steps to deploy to Google Cloud Run + Cloud SQL here: https://www.stibbard.io/elixir-phoenix-deploy-google-cloud-run-and-cloud-sql
The answer to your specific question:
- What was previously contained in
config/prod.secret.exswas moved intoconfig/runtime.exs - The default Ecto connection in a fresh
mix phx.new project_nameis in the form ofecto://USER:PASS@HOST/DATABASEhowever Cloud SQL expects asocketconnection, not a domain (e.g.,HOST) so you need to update yourconfig/runtime.exs. Refer to Ecto.Adapters.Postgres — Ecto SQL v3.14.0 – the one you want is:socket. An example updated config could be like below, which includes moving the values into environment variables/secrets.
# do this for each secret. e.g., socket, db, user, pass
database_password =
System.get_env("DATABASE_PASSWORD") ||
raise """
environment variable DATABASE_PASSWORD is missing.
"""
config :insight, Insight.Repo,
socket: database_socket,
database: database_name,
username: database_user,
password: database_password,
pool_size: String.to_integer(System.get_env("POOL_SIZE") || "10"),
socket_options: maybe_ipv6
- In your deployment you will need to populate those environment variables. In my writeup I did this in Google Secrets Manager
- You will also need to sort IAM permissions to allow your server to talk to Cloud SQL, and this will vary depending on what service you deployed your app to AND what Service Account you used. In my writeup I created a new Service Account, and we deployed to Google Cloud Run
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