I need to connect a Bluemix organisation to multiple external systems.
Can I use one Cloud Integration service Basic connector on Bluemix to connect to many on-premises end-points?
Yes, you can use a single Basic connector to connect to multiple endpoints.
After you follow the instructions to get your connector set up, you'll want to click the arrow at the far right under the detail column:
From there, you'll be taken to a page that lists the endpoints setup with the basic connector. You can click the add endpoints button to add as many endpoints as you would like.
Keep in mind, even though you can connect to multiple endpoints with a Basic connector, you can only have one Basic connector at a given time.
Cloud Integration depends on your end points.
If you have ssh endpoint Basic Connector works but it has limitation of 5 Connection free. There after you are charged in Bluemix.
Where as if you are endpoints are API's suggested connector is Standard Connector as it works on https.
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I want to set up a MySQL instance to be accessible to a mobile app as a REST based API.
How do I make that API available on the internet?
One scenario I am considering is to install MySQL on a Linux instance within MS Azure and then I would generate the APIs using a tool like Dreamfactory.
Would that work or would I need to install the MySQL DB on an Apache web server to make the API available?
Additionally - do I need to be on a domain to do this? So I will have to pay for a domain and hosting too?
Quick bit of advice if i may. I'm a startup company and developing a new mobile app that i intend to query and update data from a cloud MYSQL database, using a restful webservice and JSON. I am pretty new to this, but ok on the theory.
I originally thought i could use Dropbox to host the database and somehow install a Tomcat server also, to act as the http server, but i cant find anything online that says this is achievable. I've now found a temporary site heliohost.org, which offers free hosting, so i'm looking into that.
Does anyone have advice on a [low cost] longer term production cloud service for MYSQL database? And am i right that a good approach is to create a restful webservice in Eclipse and then somehow deploy that to the Tomcat server in the cloud, so that my app can then issue calls to it via the CN1 available methods.
There is quite a lot out there and much of it is self-promoting their own sites so was after some independent advice please.
Many thanks in advance.
You can't host and access an SQL server over the network from a device as access is remarkably unreliable and insecure. You will need some form of hosting. I used Linode for our online course since they are very affordable (5USD per month) but I've used AWS, Digital Ocean and others. They are all good.
You are correct that you will need to create a webservice, I used tomcat in the past but for the latest course I chose SpingBoot which is easier and more modern.
Using a mobile backend to store and retrieve data is a vast topic to discuss where different tools and services can be leveraged based on your application use cases.
However directly accessing MySQL server from your mobile client wouldn't be a recommended approach both in term of security as well as performance at scale.
Few options you can consider.
Developing the mobile backend with Amazon Mobile Hub where you can find different architectures and services. For example.
Using AWS DynamoDB as a Mobile Backend tightly controlling access permissions with AWS Cognito and DynamoDB Fine Grained Access Control.
Using Cognito Sync as a storage medium to Synchronize data from Mobile App to AWS and then using triggers to share and push data & etc.
Developing a REST API for the mobile backend using AWS Services such as API Gateway, Lambda & DynamoDB(Or Relational Databases like MySQL, Postgres SQL & etc. with RDS)
I have deployed my web server which requires a MySQL database for storage. I've created a Second Generation MySQL instance with one failover replica but I am not sure how I can connect to those.
I am not sure how to configure these instances and what I have to consider here e.g. region/zone. Flexible Environment appears to be unavailable in Europe unfortunately - at the moment at least - so I guess I'll have to place the SQL instances in the US too.
Will those instances have to be in the same local network or can they communicate over regions? Will I even be able to control this or will all this be decided by Google Cloud?
Could anybody who has done this before give me a few details about what to do here?
For best performance, you should place your App Engine instances in the same region.
For information on how to connect from your application to the Cloud SQL MySQL instance see the following documentation: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/dev-access#gaev2-csqlv2
The short summary is that you have to modify your app.yaml file to list the Cloud SQL instances you will be connecting to. Once that's done, a local socket will appear inside the App Engine VM that will allow you to connect to your Cloud SQL instance.
BACKGROUND-
I am planning to make a website that will accept data from users to store them in a database(MySQL).The website would be served from google cloud servers.I have installed MAMP on my mac for web development.
PROBLEM-
Google cloud services also provide Cloud SQL.Now I have a few doubts-
1)Once I finish designing my website on MAMP and want to deploy it on cloud servers I would have database settings of my local machine.Does this mean that before putting it on cloud and in order to use Cloud SQL as database I would have to change code on back-end side that specifies database settings?If yes then how tedious is it to do so?(Changing database from testing environment from MySQL to deployment environment Cloud SQL).
2)Also is there a way to use cloud and not use Cloud SQL?
3)What else combination can be chosen with database to deploy website on cloud?
Usually changing the database needs huge efforts(testing and some config changes) as all the databases provide many additional features which doesn't work directly on another database.
You can use Cloud(Cloud SQL is just part of it).
But the Cloud SQL is mysql only as per the information given on the below link by google
https://cloud.google.com/products/
So, it should not be a big deal for you to migrate the project to cloud from your local system. Only you have to configure the connection details(it will not be simply localhost).
I am trying to connect to google cloud sql instance from eclipse in my app engine connected android project.
So far i am able to connect to cloud sql instance using Class.forname("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"). But it requires authorising my ip address in google cloud sql every time i want to use the instance hence making it unfeasible.
I know that while connecting from app engine i dont need to authorize my ip address. Bur for that i have to use GoogleDriver ie. Class.forname("com.mysql.jdbc.GoogleDriver").
But when i run my code it gives me ClassNotFoundException.
I am stuck at this situation for a long time. Please give me a proper solution to the problem
The GoogleDriver is only intended to be used when actually running on App Engine. When running from eclipse or the dev_appserver you will have to use the stock com.mysql.jdbc.Driver class, and you will have to authorize your IP address. A good example of this is shown in the documentation, which demonstrates how to choose in code which driver to use. Note the commented out line for connecting from your dev environment to Cloud SQL.
As an FYI don't forget to enable the connector for running on App Engine.
I have authorised 0.0.0.0/0 in access control in my cloud instance and now all the devices are able to connect to the cloud instance with stock mysql driver ie. com.mysql.jdbc.Driver without need to changing authorised network again and again in access control.
Still can't figure out to implement GoogleDriver but for now this solution will work.
If anyone find a more better and general way to connect to cloud instance please post your answer.