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How to connect APP Platform to external database?

I have an APP that I have just deployed to the APP Platform. It looks like it runs fine, but I cannot connect to my remote database. In order to connect to the remote database, I need to add the APP’s IP to the security group.

I don’t see how to get the IP address for the APP (I would like to use a Flexible IP with it), so pinged the IP address and added that to the security group. I had no luck with that.

Does anyone have any hints?

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KFSys
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• April 26, 2022

Hi @sergiot-ruiz,

Unfortunately, App Platform applications do not have a persistent IP address. More about that here

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/manage-databases/

Regarding the connection to an external database, there is a similar question asked here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/static-ips-whitelisting

The main answer there is:

App Platform apps do not have a static-IPs. We’ve heard requests for static IPs as an add-on feature and are considering it. In the mean time, we recommend using TLS encryption and strong authentication to secure connections to external resources.