Sr Solutions Architect II
I am trying to connect the Database on the App Platform and I don’t see anything happened. Connection is not successful.
Env Vars Not Recognized
Description: I have an App Spec:
databases:
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Hello,
Got to know the below points.
Currently, DATABASE_URL (or any other database bind variables) is not available during build. We plan on supporting build time access to databases soon though we don’t have any ETA. I apologize for the inconvenience caused!
Please change the scope of the Database variables to
databases:
- engine: PG
name: db
num_nodes: 1
size: db-s-dev-database
version: "12"
name: portal
region: nyc
services:
- dockerfile_path: Dockerfile
envs:
- key: DATABASE_URL
scope: RUN_TIME
value: ${db.JDBC_DATABASE_URL}
- key: DATABASE_USERNAME
scope: RUN_TIME
value: ${db.USERNAME}
- key: DATABASE_PASSWORD
scope: RUN_TIME
value: ${db.PASSWORD}
This should work! Hope this helps!
Cheers, Sri Charan
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