Connect to Cloud SQL from an Application in Kubernetes Engine

About this course

This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. This lab shows how easy it is to connect an application in Kubernetes Engine to a Cloud SQL instance using the Cloud SQL Proxy container as a sidecar container. You will deploy a Kubernetes Engine cluster and a Cloud SQL Postgres instance and use the Cloud SQL Proxy container to allow communication between them.

What you will learn

• How to protect your database from unauthorized access by using an unprivileged service account on your Kubernetes Engine nodes.
• How to put privileged service account credentials into a container running on Kubernetes Engine.