AlloyDB Quick Setup Lab

1. Overview

With this codelab, we will demonstrate a simple, easy-to-do method for setting up AlloyDB.

What you'll build

As part of this, you will create an AlloyDB instance and cluster along with all its required network configurations in one click installation and you'll learn to set it up quickly in your future projects as well.

Requirements

• A browser, such as Chrome or Firefox
• A Google Cloud project with billing enabled.

2. Before you begin

Create a project

1. In the Google Cloud Console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.
2. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Cloud project. Learn how to check if billing is enabled on a project.

If you are trying out Google Cloud services and want trial credits to begin with, you can set up a trial billing account using the GCP Trial Billing Credit Link: https://bit.ly/ez-alloydb1

How to redeem credits using this link? Refer.

3. You'll use Cloud Shell, a command-line environment running in Google Cloud. Click Activate Cloud Shell at the top of the Google Cloud console.

4. Once connected to Cloud Shell, you check that you're already authenticated and that the project is set to your project ID using the following command:

gcloud auth list

5. Run the following command in Cloud Shell to confirm that the gcloud command knows about your project.

gcloud config list project

6. If your project is not set, use the following command to set it:

gcloud config set project <YOUR_PROJECT_ID>

7. Enable the required APIs: Follow the link and enable the APIs.

Alternatively you can use the gcloud command for this. Refer documentation for gcloud commands and usage.

3. AlloyDB setup

Let's create an AlloyDB cluster and instance along with the network configurations.

1. Run the below commands from your Google Cloud Shell Terminal to clone the repo in a root directory and navigate to the cloned project folder:

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/devrel-demos.git

# 2. Navigate to the project directory
cd devrel-demos/infrastructure/easy-alloydb-setup

2. Once this step is complete the repo will be cloned to your local cloud shell editor and you will be able to run the command below from within the project folder (important to make sure you are in the project directory):

sh run.sh

3. Now use the UI (you can find the link in the terminal's logs, you can click that or you can also navigate by clicking the "preview on web" link in the terminal.
4. Enter your details for project id, cluster and instance names to get started.

You would notice a "Link Trial Billing Account" tab in the UI. This is useful if you are using the trial credit link provided in the "Create a project" section of step 2 ("Before you begin") of the codelab, to link an active TRIAL billing account to your Google Cloud project.

5. Go grab a coffee while the logs scroll & you can read about how it's doing this behind the scenes here.

If you want to test it locally or from anywhere, go to the AlloyDB instance, click "EDIT" and click "Enable Public IP" or "Public IP Connectivity" (not the outbound one) and enter "0.0.0.0/0" in "Authorized External Networks" for development purposes but once done, remove & disable public ip connectivity.

4. Congratulations

You're good to go!!!

Get started with setting up your data with AlloyDB quick & easy!!!