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

MySQL | PostgreSQL | SQL Server

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

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.

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

Go to project selector

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

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

Go to project selector

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

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

Public IP

Private IP

Console

Allocate an IP address range and create a private connection to configure private services access for Cloud SQL

In the Google Cloud console, go to the VPC networks page.

Go to VPC networks
Select the default VPC network.
Select the Private service connection tab.
Select the Allocated IP ranges for services tab.
Click Allocate IP range.
For the Name of the allocated range, specify google-managed-services-default.
Select the Automatic option for IP range and specify the prefix length as 16.
Click Allocate to create the allocated range.
Select the Private connections to services tab for the default VPC network.
Click Create connection to create a private connection between your network and a service producer.
For the Assigned allocation, select google-managed-services-default.
Click Connect to create the connection.

Create an instance with private IP address and SSL enabled

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

Go to Cloud SQL Instances
Click Create instance.
Click Choose SQL Server.
Make sure that Enterprise Plus is selected as the Cloud SQL edition for your instance.
In the Instance ID field, enter quickstart-instance.
In the Password field, enter a password for the sqlserver user. Save this password for future use.
In the Choose region and zonal availability section, select Single zone.
Click the Show configuration options menu.
Expand the Machine configuration node.
From the Machine shapes region, select the 4 vCPU, 32 GB shape.
Expand the Connections node.
Clear the Public IP checkbox to create an instance only with a private IP address.
Select the Private IP checkbox.
From the Network menu, select default.
Click Create instance and then wait for the instance to initialize and start.
Click Connections.
In the Security section, select Allow only SSL connections to enable SSL connections.
In the Allow only SSL connections dialog, click Save and restart and then wait for the instance to restart.

gcloud

Allocate an IP address range and create a private connection to configure private services access for Cloud SQL

Run the gcloud compute addresses create command to allocate an IP address range.

gcloud compute addresses create google-managed-services-default \
--global --purpose=VPC_PEERING --prefix-length=16 \
--description="peering range for Google" --network=default

Run the gcloud services vpc-peerings connect command to create a private connection to the allocated IP address range. Replace YOUR_PROJECT_ID with your project's project ID.

gcloud services vpc-peerings connect --service=servicenetworking.googleapis.com \
--ranges=google-managed-services-default --network=default \
--project=YOUR_PROJECT_ID

Create an instance with private IP address and SSL enabled

Before running the command as follows, replace DB_ROOT_PASSWORD with the password of your database user.

Optionally, modify the values for the following parameters:

--database-version: The database engine type and version. If left unspecified, the API default is used. See the gcloud database versions documentation to see the current available versions.
--cpu: The number of cores in the machine.
--memory: A whole number value indicating how much memory to include in the machine. A size unit can be provided (for example, 3072MB or 9GB). If no units are specified, GB is assumed.
--region: The regional location of the instance (for example asia-east1, us-east1). If left unspecified, the default us-central1 is used. See the full list of regions.

Run the gcloud sql instances create command to create a Cloud SQL instance with a Private IP address.

gcloud sql instances create quickstart-instance \
--database-version=SQLSERVER_2017_STANDARD \
 --cpu=1 \
 --memory=4GB \
 --region=us-central \
 --root-password=DB_ROOT_PASSWORD \
 --no-assign-ip \
--network=default

Run the gcloud sql instances patch command to enable only allow SSL connections for the instance.

gcloud sql instances patch quickstart-instance --require-ssl

Create a database

Console

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

Go to Cloud SQL Instances
Select quickstart-instance.
From the SQL navigation menu, select Databases.
Click Create database.

In the Database name field of the New database dialog box, enter quickstart-db.
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

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

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

gcloud

Run the following gcloud app create command to create an App Engine app:

gcloud app create

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

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

Go to IAM
For the service account named App Engine default service account, click the pencil icon.
Note: The name of the service account appears next to the principal for the account. The name of the principal is project-name@appspot.gserviceaccount.com.
Click Add another role.
Add the Role named Cloud SQL Client.
Click Save.

gcloud

Run the following gcloud command to get a list of your project's service accounts:
```
gcloud iam service-accounts list
```
Copy the EMAIL of the App Engine service account.

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.

Public IP

Go

In Cloud Shell Editor, open the sample app's source code.
Open Cloud Shell Editor
In the Open in Cloud Shell dialog box, click Confirm to download the sample app code and open the sample app directory in Cloud Shell Editor.
At the Cloud Shell command prompt, run the following command to activate your project:
```
gcloud config set project YOUR-PROJECT-ID
```
Note: Replace YOUR-PROJECT-ID with your project ID.
If an Authorize Cloud Shell dialog box appears, then click Authorize.
From the Explorer navigation menu of Cloud Shell Editor, click the expandable node that's the username of your Google Cloud account.
Navigate to and open the cloudshell_open/golang-samples/cloudsql/sqlserver/database-sql/app.flexible.yaml file.
Replace the placeholders for the environment variables in the app.flexible.yaml file with the following values:

<PROJECT-ID> with your project ID.
<INSTANCE-REGION> with us-central1.
<INSTANCE-NAME> with quickstart-instance.
<YOUR_DB_USER_NAME> with sqlserver.
<YOUR_DB_PASSWORD> with the password of the quickstart-user that you created in Create a user.
<YOUR_DB_NAME> with quickstart-db.

At the Cloud Shell command prompt, in the cloudshell_open/golang-samples/cloudsql/sqlserver/database-sql directory, run the following gcloud app deploy command to deploy the sample app to App Engine flexible environment.

gcloud app deploy app.flexible.yaml

When prompted with Do you want to continue?, enter Y.
After the actions performed by running the gcloud app deploy command complete, run the gcloud app browse command:

gcloud app browse

Click the generated link to see the sample app running on App Engine flexible environment. This environment is connected to Cloud SQL.

View deployed sample app.

Java

In Cloud Shell Editor, open the sample app's source code.
Open Cloud Shell Editor
In the Open in Cloud Shell dialog box, click Confirm to download the sample app code and open the sample app directory in Cloud Shell Editor.
At the Cloud Shell command prompt, run the following command to activate your project:
```
gcloud config set project YOUR-PROJECT-ID
```
Note: Replace YOUR-PROJECT-ID with your project ID.
If an Authorize Cloud Shell dialog box appears, then click Authorize.
From the Explorer navigation menu of Cloud Shell Editor, click the expandable node that's the username of your Google Cloud account.
Navigate to and open the cloudshell_open/java-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sqlserver/servlet/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml file.
Replace the placeholders for the environment variables in the appengine-web.xml file with the following values:

project-name:region-name:instance-name with your instance's Connection name that appears on the Cloud SQL instances page in the Google Cloud console.
my-db-user with quickstart-user.
my-db-password with the password of the sqlserver that you created in Create a user.
my_db with quickstart-db.

At the Cloud Shell command prompt, in the cloudshell_open/java-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sqlserver/servlet directory, run the following Apache Maven mvn clean package command to deploy the sample app to App Engine flexible environment.

mvn clean package appengine:deploy -DskipTests

When prompted with Do you want to continue?, enter Y.
After the actions performed by running the gcloud app deploy command complete, run the gcloud app browse command:

gcloud app browse

Click the generated link to see the sample app running on App Engine flexible environment. This environment is connected to Cloud SQL.

View deployed sample app.

Node.js

In Cloud Shell Editor, open the sample app's source code.
Open Cloud Shell Editor
In the Open in Cloud Shell dialog box, click Confirm to download the sample app code and open the sample app directory in Cloud Shell Editor.
At the Cloud Shell command prompt, run the following command to activate your project:
```
gcloud config set project YOUR-PROJECT-ID
```
Note: Replace YOUR-PROJECT-ID with your project ID.
If an Authorize Cloud Shell dialog box appears, then click Authorize.
From the Explorer navigation menu of Cloud Shell Editor, click the expandable node that's the username of your Google Cloud account.
Navigate to and open the cloudshell_open/nodejs-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sqlserver/mssql/app.flexible.yaml file.
Replace the placeholders for the environment variables in the app.flexible.yaml file with the following values:

<MY-PROJECT> with your project ID.
<INSTANCE-REGION> with us-central1.
<INSTANCE-NAME> with quickstart-instance.
MY_DB_USER with quickstart-user.
MY_DB_PASSWORD with the password of the quickstart-user that you created in Create a user.
MY_DATABASE with quickstart-db.

At the Cloud Shell command prompt, in the cloudshell_open/nodejs-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sqlserver/mssql directory, run the following gcloud app deploy command to deploy the sample app to App Engine flexible environment.

gcloud app deploy app.flexible.yaml

When prompted with Do you want to continue?, enter Y.
After the actions performed by running the gcloud app deploy command complete, run the gcloud app browse command:

gcloud app browse

Click the generated link to see the sample app running on App Engine flexible environment. This environment is connected to Cloud SQL.

View deployed sample app.

Python

In Cloud Shell Editor, open the sample app's source code.
Open Cloud Shell Editor
In the Open in Cloud Shell dialog box, click Confirm to download the sample app code and open the sample app directory in Cloud Shell Editor.
At the Cloud Shell command prompt, run the following command to activate your project:
```
gcloud config set project YOUR-PROJECT-ID
```
Note: Replace YOUR-PROJECT-ID with your project ID.
If an Authorize Cloud Shell dialog box appears, then click Authorize.
From the Explorer navigation menu of Cloud Shell Editor, click the expandable node that's the username of your Google Cloud account.
Navigate to and open the cloudshell_open/python-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sql-server/sqlalchemy/app.flexible.yaml file.
Replace the placeholders for the environment variables in the app.flexible.yaml file with the following values:

<PROJECT-ID> with your project ID.
<INSTANCE-REGION> with us-central1.
<INSTANCE-NAME> with quickstart-instance.
<YOUR_DB_USER_NAME> with sqlserver.
<YOUR_DB_PASSWORD> with the password of the quickstart-user that you created in Create a user.
<YOUR_DB_NAME> with quickstart-db.

At the Cloud Shell command prompt, in the cloudshell_open/python-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sql-server/sqlalchemy directory, run the following gcloud app deploy command to deploy the sample app to App Engine flexible environment.

gcloud app deploy app.flexible.yaml

When prompted with Do you want to continue?, enter Y.
After the actions performed by running the gcloud app deploy command complete, run the gcloud app browse command:

gcloud app browse

Click the generated link to see the sample app running on App Engine flexible environment. This environment is connected to Cloud SQL.

View deployed sample app.

Private IP

For private IP paths, make sure your App Engine flexible environment VM and the Cloud SQL instance are hosted on the same Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network. When located on the same VPC network, your App Engine flexible environment app can connect directly to the Cloud SQL instance without using the Cloud SQL Auth Proxy.

Go

Create and download SSL server certificate

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

Go to Cloud SQL Instances
Click the quickstart-instance to see its Overview page.
Click the Connections tab.
In the Security section, click Download certificates to download the SSL server certificate.

Build sample app with SSL server certificate

In Cloud Shell Editor, open the sample app's source code.
Open Cloud Shell Editor
In the Open in Cloud Shell dialog, click Confirm to download the sample app code and open the sample app directory in Cloud Shell Editor.
At the Cloud Shell command prompt, run the following command to activate your project:
```
gcloud config set project YOUR-PROJECT-ID
```
Note: Replace YOUR-PROJECT-ID with your project ID.
If an Authorize Cloud Shell dialog appears, then click Authorize.
Upload the SSL server certificate file to the certs folder.
1. From the Explorer navigation menu of Cloud Shell Editor, navigate to the golang-samples/cloudsql/sqlserver/database-sql/certs folder.
2. Right-click the certs folder in Cloud Shell Editor and select Upload Files.
3. Select the following file on your local machine: server-ca.pem.
4. With the SSL server certificate file selected, click Open to complete the process of uploading the file to Cloud Shell Editor.
From the Explorer navigation menu of Cloud Shell Editor, click the expandable node that's the username of your Google Cloud account.
Navigate to and open the cloudshell_open/golang-samples/cloudsql/sqlserver/database-sql/app.flexible.yaml file.
Copy and paste the following code into the file, replacing the existing file content:

runtime: custom
env: flex

env_variables:
  INSTANCE_CONNECTION_NAME: PROJECT-ID:INSTANCE-REGION:INSTANCE-NAME
  DB_USER: sqlserver
  DB_PASS: YOUR_DB_PASSWORD
  DB_NAME: quickstart-db
  DB_PORT: 1433
  INSTANCE_HOST: INSTANCE_HOST
  DB_ROOT_CERT: certs/server-ca.pem
  PRIVATE_IP: TRUE

vpc_access_connector:
  name: projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/us-central1/connectors/quickstart-connector

Make the following variable replacements:

PROJECT_ID with your project ID.
INSTANCE-REGION with us-central1.
INSTANCE-NAME with your instance's ID that appears on the Cloud SQL instances page in the Google Cloud console.
YOUR_DB_PASSWORD with the password of the quickstart-user that you created in Create a user.
INSTANCE_HOST with your instance's Private IP address that appears on the Cloud SQL instances page in the Google Cloud console.

At the Cloud Shell command prompt, in the cloudshell_open/golang-samples/cloudsql/sqlserver/database-sql directory, run the following gcloud app deploy command to deploy the sample app to App Engine flexible environment.

gcloud app deploy app.flexible.yaml

When prompted with Do you want to continue?, enter Y.
After the actions performed by running the gcloud app deploy command complete, run the gcloud app browse command:

gcloud app browse

Click the generated link to see the sample app running on App Engine flexible environment. This environment is connected to Cloud SQL.

View deployed sample app.

Node.js

Build sample app

In Cloud Shell Editor, open the sample app's source code.
Open Cloud Shell Editor
In the Open in Cloud Shell dialog, click Confirm to download the sample app code and open the sample app directory in Cloud Shell Editor.
At the Cloud Shell command prompt, run the following command to activate your project:
```
gcloud config set project YOUR-PROJECT-ID
```
Note: Replace YOUR-PROJECT-ID with your project ID.
If an Authorize Cloud Shell dialog appears, then click Authorize.
From the Explorer navigation menu of Cloud Shell Editor, click the expandable node that's the username of your Google Cloud account.
Navigate to and open the cloudshell_open/nodejs-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sqlserver/mssql/app.flexible.yaml file.
Copy and paste the following code into the file, replacing the existing file content:

runtime: nodejs
env: flex

env_variables:
  DB_USER: quickstart-user
  DB_PASS: MY_DB_PASSWORD
  DB_NAME: quickstart-db
  DB_PORT: 1433
  INSTANCE_HOST: INSTANCE_HOST
  PRIVATE_IP: TRUE

vpc_access_connector:
  name: projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/us-central1/connectors/quickstart-connector

Make the following variable replacements:

MY_DB_PASSWORD with the password of the quickstart-user that you created in Create a user.
INSTANCE_HOST with your instance's Private IP address that appears on the Cloud SQL instances page in the Google Cloud console.
PROJECT_ID with your project ID.

At the Cloud Shell command prompt, in the cloudshell_open/nodejs-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sqlserver/mssql directory, run the following gcloud app deploy command to deploy the sample app to App Engine flexible environment.

gcloud app deploy app.flexible.yaml

When prompted with Do you want to continue?, enter Y.
After the actions performed by running the gcloud app deploy command complete, run the gcloud app browse command:

gcloud app browse

Click the generated link to see the sample app running on App Engine flexible environment. This environment is connected to Cloud SQL.

View deployed sample app.

Python

Create and download SSL server certificate

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

Go to Cloud SQL Instances
Click the quickstart-instance to see its Overview page.
Click the Connections tab.
In the Security section, click Download certificates to download the SSL server certificate.

Build sample app with SSL server certificate

In Cloud Shell Editor, open the sample app's source code.
Open Cloud Shell Editor
In the Open in Cloud Shell dialog, click Confirm to download the sample app code and open the sample app directory in Cloud Shell Editor.
At the Cloud Shell command prompt, run the following command to activate your project:
```
gcloud config set project YOUR-PROJECT-ID
```
Note: Replace YOUR-PROJECT-ID with your project ID.
If an Authorize Cloud Shell dialog appears, then click Authorize.
Upload SSL server certificate file to the certs folder.
1. From the Explorer navigation menu of Cloud Shell Editor, navigate to the python-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sql-server/sqlalchemy/certs folder.
2. Right-click the certs folder in Cloud Shell Editor and select Upload Files
3. Select following file on your local machine: server-ca.pem.
4. With the SSL server certificate file selected, click Open to complete the process of uploading the file to Cloud Shell Editor.
From the Explorer navigation menu of Cloud Shell Editor, click the expandable node that's the username of your Google Cloud account.
Navigate to and open the cloudshell_open/python-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sql-server/sqlalchemy/app.flexible.yaml file.
Copy and paste the following code into the file, replacing the existing file content:

runtime: custom
env: flex
entrypoint: gunicorn -b :$PORT app:app

env_variables:
  DB_NAME: quickstart-db
  DB_USER: sqlserver
  DB_PASS: YOUR_DB_PASSWORD
  INSTANCE_HOST: INSTANCE_HOST
  DB_PORT: 1433
  DB_ROOT_CERT: certs/server-ca.pem
  PRIVATE_IP: TRUE

vpc_access_connector:
  name: projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/us-central1/connectors/quickstart-connector

Make the following variable replacements:

YOUR_DB_PASSWORD with the password of the quickstart-user that you created in Create a user.
INSTANCE_HOST with your instance's Private IP address that appears on the Cloud SQL instances page in the Google Cloud console.
PROJECT_ID with your project ID.

At the Cloud Shell command prompt, in the cloudshell_open/python-docs-samples/cloud-sql/sql-server/sqlalchemy directory, run the following gcloud app deploy command to deploy the sample app to App Engine flexible environment.

gcloud app deploy app.flexible.yaml

When prompted with Do you want to continue?, enter Y.
After the actions performed by running the gcloud app deploy command complete, run the gcloud app browse command:

gcloud app browse

Click the generated link to see the sample app running on App Engine flexible environment. This environment is connected to Cloud SQL.

View deployed sample app.

Clean up

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

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

Go to Cloud SQL Instances
Select the quickstart-instance instance to open the Instance details page.
In the icon bar at the top of the page, click Delete.
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:

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

Go to Settings
In the Application settings tab, click Disable application.
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.

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

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

In the Google Cloud console, go to the APIs page.

Go to APIs
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: