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How to connect managed database (postgres) with ssl-mode="varify-full" in django app?

Hello. Currently I have a django app running on a droplet. And I am using your Managed Database for postgresql. Currently my connection has ssl-mode set to ‘require’, but I want to change the ssl-mode to ‘varify-full’. I have changed django app settings like the following:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': DATABASE_NAME,
        'USER': DATABASE_USER,
        'PASSWORD': DATABASE_PASSWORD,
        'HOST': DATABASE_HOST,
        'PORT': DATABASE_PORT,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'sslmode': 'varify-full',
        },
    }
}

I have downloaded the CA certificate given in the database cluster overview page in connection details. I have put the certificate in ~/.postgresql/ folder. I have read the postgres documentation and realized that I need four files ~/.postgresql/postgresql.crt ~/.postgresql/postgresql.key ~/.postgresql/root.crt ~/.postgresql/root.crl

Where can I find the other files? Please Someone give a proper guidence about how to do this step by step as I am a complete newbie in this field. Thanks in advance.

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David A • December 6, 2019

This worked for me on my dev box…

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': '<name>',
        'USER': '<user>',
        'PASSWORD': '<password>',
        'HOST' : '<host>',
        'PORT' : '25060',   
        'OPTIONS':{
            'sslmode':'verify-full',
            'sslrootcert': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'ca-certificate.crt')
}
Server Enthusiast • September 20, 2019

That is an interesting question. Have you gone through this guide here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-scalable-django-app-with-digitalocean-managed-databases-and-spaces

It looks like that you should be able to connect with just the following:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'polls',
        'USER': 'myprojectuser',
        'PASSWORD': 'password',
        'HOST': 'managed_db_host',
        'PORT': 'managed_db_port',
    }
}

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