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Tech talk
Migrate your data quickly, get more powerful instances, and see how leveraging DigitalOcean Managed Databases allows you to focus on what's important — building your product.
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Mark Huber
Tech Talks
Databases
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
DigitalOcean Managed Redis
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Tutorial series
Terraform is a popular open source Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tool that automates provisioning of your infrastructure in the cloud and manages the full lifecycle of all deployed resources, which are defined in sourc...
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Savic, Mitchell Anicas and Brian Hogan
Terraform
Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
System Tools
API
Nginx
Load Balancing
DigitalOcean Managed Load Balancers
DNS
Apache
Python
DigitalOcean
Infrastructure
DigitalOcean Spaces
Ansible
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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In this tutorial, you'll create an organization in Terraform Cloud to which you'll connect your project. You'll then use your orgnanization to set up workspaces and resources. You will store your state in the managed ...
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Savic
Terraform
Cloud Computing
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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Question
Are the backups made for the managed PostgreSQL stored in the same datacenter as the database itself? If yes, is there a way to have them stored in a different one?
Thanks!
Accepted Answer:
Hello @esd
No, they are not taken at the same location. To ensure data safety we use offsite backups for database cluster(s). Since the service is managed, we handle all backup operations on our end. The backup itsel...
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esd
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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Question
As of right now, I could not find a way to put my App Platform's App in a VPC so that I can restrict access using Trusted Sources on my database. I can't add any app related information in my Trusted Sources of my dat...
Accepted Answer:
VPC functionality or the ability to list a database in trusted sources is on our roadmap, but not currently available. In the mean time we recommend using TLS to secure your connection and using strong passwords.
Wa...
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GiantGreenBlueStarfish
DigitalOcean App Platform
DigitalOcean VPC
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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We are about to put up a production environment using Apps and a Hosted Postgres database, but the fact that you cant lock the postgres down by IP is holding us off.
Having a production database exposed to the interne...
Accepted Answer:
👋 This is a priority on our roadmap. We encourage you to follow our online Release Notes documentation (https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/release-notes/app-platform/).
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niklasCrab
DigitalOcean App Platform
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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Question
We have a our database managed by DigitalOcean and a few days ago whilst our DB was overloaded we got a peculiar error in our Rails project which after looking into it quite a bit the only thing that I believe could h...
Accepted Answer:
Hey there,
No, it's not possible and Standby nodes are exact copies of the primary node (including DB version) that automatically take over if the primary node fails. You might have to look into it further to find the...
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keeyan
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
Needs Product Answer
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I want to use a single Managed PostgreSQL cluster from DO to host multiple applications (since they're all small, there's no need to have a unique cluster per app).
From what I've gathered, permissions and user privil...
Accepted Answer:
Hey @slig -
This syntax should work perfectly!
Cheers!
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slig
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
PostgreSQL
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Question
I build interesting applications using best practices in infra architecture and would love to be able to write/blog about them. However, I lack the tools to be able to create good architecture diagrams for all the di...
Accepted Answer:
A great resource for creating architecture diagrams for infrastructure configurations based on DigitalOcean can be found here: https://do.co/diagram-kit
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rsharma
DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes
DigitalOcean Managed Load Balancers
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
DigitalOcean Spaces
DigitalOcean Volumes
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Question
Hi,
I am completely new to cloud server and to PostgreSQL.
I would like to setup a SSL Connection with PostgreSQL managed database on Digital Ocean.
I downloaded the CA certificate. However, when I try to use the CA c...
Accepted Answer:
Hi there @gauravmjoshi,
I've just tested this, what you need is the following, under the SSL section specify:
Set the SSL mode to Required
You need to download your CA certificate and add it under the Root Certificate...
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gauravmjoshi
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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Question
Where to see how much disk space is currenly used by a particular managed database?
Can't find this information in the admin panel: only the space limits.
Accepted Answer:
Hello,
To check that you could do the following:
Go to your control panel at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/
Then go to your managed database instance
Click on 'Insights' then from the dropdown choose the name of you...
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scabbiaza
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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Question
I can not figure out how to create a managed database and set trusted sources with CLI (docli) or better Terraform. From the documentation:
Endpoint: "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/databases"
Body:
{
"name": "bac...
Accepted Answer:
Hello,
This was very recently implemented to the DigitalOcean API, now the API supports managing a database cluster’s firewall rules (or “trusted sources” as they are called in the control panel).
You can use this en...
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marekgmyrek
DigitalOcean API and CLI (doctl)
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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I want to buy postgre database hosting for 15 USD. I want to know this price(15 USD) only one postgre database price or can I create more than one database? (If so please tell me limits databases)
thanks.
Accepted Answer:
Hello,
There are no limits to the databases that you can create on your Managed database cluster. It would be the size of your databases that would matter. For example, with the 15$/mo Managed PostgreSQL Database Clus...
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telmandel
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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I have a Postgres server on the DBaaS service. I can see how much space an individual database is using with via the database statistics page in pgAdmin4. But how can I check the amount of space that is still availa...
Accepted Answer:
Hello, @lwyatt
This should be visible in the Digital Ocean control panel in the Cluster metrics. To view performance metrics, click the name of the database to go to its Overview page, then click the Insights tab.
Yo...
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lwyatt
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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Hello,
I'm looking to restrict the access of my Managed Database to only App Platform but it appears that we can't actually, or I am missing something ?
This is a very high security issue !
Thanks,
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scorsi
DigitalOcean App Platform
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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I’m trying to migrate to a managed database, both hosted in DigitalOcean, one is a MySQL cluster, the other is a POSTGRES one.
When I enter this command:
pgloader mysql://<DB_USER>:<DB_PASS>@<DB_HOST>:<DB_PORT>/<DB_...
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alramalho
PostgreSQL
MySQL
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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I am trying to migrate postgre db from DO VM into DO's PostgreSQL managed database.
I used pg_dump for specific database, and use pg_restore to load the data.
All went well, except until I turn off the old VM, queryi...
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napjon
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
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I have signed up for the Managed Database for Postgreql. Now I have also signed up for a DigitalOcean App and selected the Managed Database as the database.
There was a message telling me that I have restricted acces...
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ChellGouda
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
DigitalOcean App Platform
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I am using Postgres in production but have run into challenges around monitoring.
I'd like to be able to see when queries are slow, especially as our data grows and our access patterns grow. Right now, Digital Ocean ...
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andrew20
PostgreSQL
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
Databases
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Dear DO Community,
Regardless of whether it is the managed Postgres DB or my DRF droplets, it seems like the load average is very high while the cpu usage is still reasonable. This is true regardless of whether I am u...
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clementyctong
Apache
Django
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database