How to connect Google Cloud SQL via Google App engine Flex to botnet core app? - google-app-engine

Question

I have a .NET Core 2.2 app using a PostgreSQL DB.
Now I want to deploy it on Google Cloud App Engine Flex and Google Cloud SQL PostgreSQL.
I tried the official way and found this, where I found that you have to use $ gcloud beta app deploy instead of $ gcloud app deploy
My app.yaml configuration file:
env: flex
runtime: aspnetcore
beta_settings:
cloud_sql_instances: "<SQL-NAME>=tcp:<PORT>"
The issue is that I get this error:
Trying to connect to
Host=127.0.0.1;Port=XXX;Username=XXX;Password=XXX;Database=XXX;
Application startup exception: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException
(111): Connection refused
Do I have to include special libraries into .NET Core 2.2 to support Google App Engine?

Answer 1

You don't need to include any special libraries in .NET Core 2.2 rather than those that are already included in the Quckstart that you have shared above, unless of course you are using any additional libraries in your code.
I have tried the quickstart and deployed my .NET GAE app that connects to CloudSQL PostgreSQL database.
Taking a look at your app.yaml configuration file I can see that there is an issue with it. Also based on the error message you are getting I assume that you are having an issue in your appsettings.json file as well.
Based on the quickstart of GitHub that you shared, the configuration when deploying should be:
app.yaml
runtime: aspnetcore
env: flex
beta_settings:
cloud_sql_instances: "[PROJECT_ID]:[INSTANCE_REGION]:[INSTANCE_NAME]=tcp:[TCP_PORT_NUMPER]"
TCP Port number for PostgreSQL: 5432
TCP Port number for MySQL: 3306
To find the Instance connection name which is the part before tcp, you can go to Cloud Console > SQL > [YOU_INSTANCE_NAME] and you can find the entire string under Instance connection name
appsettings.json
{
"CloudSQL" : {
"Database" : "PostgreSQL", // Set to "PostgreSQL" when using a PostgreSQL database.
// [START gae_flex_mysql_settings]
"ConnectionString": "Uid=[USER_ID];Pwd=[PASSWORD];Host=cloudsql;Database=[DATABASE_NAME]"
// [END gae_flex_mysql_settings]
}
}
Database should be PostgreSQL as also specified by the comment
ConnectionString should be filled with your own data that you used to setup the database
The Host part should be cloudsql when you are deploying and 127.0.0.1 when running locally.
127.0.0.1 indicates that the database is running locally and the cloudsql string indicates that it should use the connection string name. Based on the error, I assume that you used the 127.0.0.1 to test locally but then forgot to change it back when you were deploying.