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replicate about replication in cloud sql create and manage replicas create read replicas manage read replicas create and manage indexes on read replicas promote replicas for regional migration or disaster recovery replication lag create and manage read pools about read pools create a read pool read pool autoscaling configure external replicas replicate from an external server about replicating from an external server configure cloud sql and the external server for replication use a managed import to set up replication from external databases use a dump file to set up replication from external databases use a custom import to set up replication from large external databases migrate data about data migration in cloud sql migrate from a percona xtrabackup physical file migrate from cloud sql to an external server availability and disaster recovery dr availability in cloud sql about high availability ha enable and disable high availability ha legacy configuration for high availability ha 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guidance for this task directly in the google cloud console click guide me guide me before you begin note the name you use for your project must be between 4 and 30 characters when you type the name the form suggests a project id which you can edit the project id must be between 6 and 30 characters with a lowercase letter as the first character you can use a dash lowercase letter or digit for the remaining characters but the last character cannot be a dash 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 roles required to select or create a project select a project selecting a project doesn t require a specific iam role you can select any project that you ve been granted a role on create a project to create a project you need the project creator role roles resourcemanager projectcreator which contains the resourcemanager projects create permission learn how to grant roles note if you don t plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure create a project instead of selecting an existing project after you finish these steps you can delete the project removing all resources associated with the project go to project selector verify 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 roles required to select or create a project select a project selecting a project doesn t require a specific iam role you can select any project that you ve been granted a role on create a project to create a project you need the project creator role roles resourcemanager projectcreator which contains the resourcemanager projects create permission learn how to grant roles note if you don t plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure create a project instead of selecting an existing project after you finish these steps you can delete the project removing all resources associated with the project go to project selector verify that billing is enabled for your google cloud project enable the necessary google cloud apis console in the google cloud console go to the apis page go to apis enable the cloud sql admin api 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 gcloud services enable command as follows using cloud shell to enable the apis required for this quickstart gcloud services enable sqladmin googleapis com this command enables the following apis cloud sql admin api make sure that you have the following role or roles on the project cloud sql admin roles cloudsql admin check for the roles in the google cloud console go to the iam page go to iam select the project in the principal column find all rows that identify you or a group that you re included in to learn which groups you re included in contact your administrator for all rows that specify or include you check the role column to see whether the list of roles includes the required roles grant the roles in the google cloud console go to the iam page go to iam select the project click person_add grant access in the new principals field enter your user identifier this is typically the email address for a google account click select a role then search for the role to grant additional roles click add add another role and add each additional role click save create a cloud sql instance in this quickstart you use the google cloud console to use the gcloud cli curl or powershell see create instances in the google cloud console go to the cloud sql instances page go to cloud sql instances click create instance from the create instance menu select new instance click choose mysql in the instance id field enter myinstance in the password field enter a password for the root user click create instance you re returned to the instances list you can click the new instance right away to see the details but it won t be available for other operations until it initializes and starts note in this example the instance is created using default settings including a public ip address connect to your instance in this quickstart we ll use the mysql client in cloud shell to connect to your instance cloud shell is a remote sandboxed environment note cloud shell doesn t work with a private ip address these instructions are only for an instance with a public ip address optional if you re running a local instance of mysql stop it before connecting to your cloud sql instance otherwise you might encounter errors such as address already in use in the google cloud console click the cloud shell icon in the upper right corner when cloud shell finishes initializing a message such as the following one appears welcome to cloud shell type help to get started your cloud platform project in this session is set to sample project use gcloud config set project project_id to change to a different project username sample project sample project optional if you haven t authorized gcloud cli to access the google cloud platform with your google user credentials then use the gcloud auth login command at the cloud shell prompt connect to your cloud sql instance use the gcloud sql connect command as follows replace the instance name if your instance name is different gcloud sql connect myinstance user root in the dialog click authorize to authorize cloud shell to make api calls the following message appears allowlisting your ip for incoming connection for 5 minutes done this message indicates that the public ip address of your cloud sql instance is being allowed to have incoming connections after this message you re prompted to enter your password enter your root password the mysql prompt appears create a database and upload data create a sql database on your cloud sql instance create database guestbook insert sample data into the guestbook database use guestbook create table entries guestname varchar 255 content varchar 255 entryid int not null auto_increment primary key entryid insert into entries guestname content values first guest i got here insert into entries guestname content values second guest me too retrieve the data select from entries the result is guestname content entryid first guest i got here 1 second guest me too 2 2 rows in set 0 00 sec mysql 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 myinstance instance to open the instance details page in the icon bar at the top of the page click delete in the delete instance window type your instance s name and then click delete optional cleanup steps 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 cloud sql admin api in the google cloud console go to the apis page go to apis select the cloud sql admin api and then click the disable api button what s next learn about creating cloud sql instances learn about creating mysql users and databases for your cloud sql instance see the cloud sql pricing information in this quickstart you connected to the instance by using cloud shell learn about all of the connectivity options in cloud sql how you connect depends on your networking configuration such as if your cloud sql instance has a public or private ip address see how to configure your cloud sql instance with a public ip and a private ip address learn about connecting to a cloud sql instance from other google cloud applications from an application 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