Create Credentials to Access your Database
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When new servers are launched, the software running on those servers need credentials in order to access resources and perform tasks. For example, an application server needs a password in order to access your database or backup scripts need the aws_secret_access_key in order to store the backup file in your S3 bucket. Any type of sensitive information that need to be passed directly into a server should be stored as a credential. Credentials saved in the Dashboard are encrypted and cannot be retrieved through the web interface.
NOTE: These credentials are specific to running servers and are different from account credentials, which are used by RightScale to access Amazon Web Services on your behalf, such as launching new servers.
Objective
To create credentials to access your database. You'll need to create the credentials for the database and for DNSMadeEasy.
Create Database Credentials
First you'll create credentials for your database. You need to make sure that the DB users that you create are not root. Our scripts expect there to be "no password" for the root. If you set a password for the root, it will break our scripts.
- DBADMIN_USER
- DBADMIN_PASSWORD
- DNSMADEEASY_USER
- DNSMADEEASY_PASSWORD
- DBAPPLICATION_USER
- DBREPLICATION_USER
Go to Design -> Credentials.
Click New Credential.
Name the first credential DBADMIN_USER. Add a value of admin.
Click Save.
Now create several more credentials with the following names and values.
NOTE: The user/password values can be any value that you define.
| DBADMIN_USER | Your admin username |
| DBADMIN_PASSWORD | Your admin user password |
| DBAPPLICATION_USER | Your application username |
| DBAPPLICATION_PASSWORD | Your application user password |
| DBREPLICATION_USER | Your replication username |
| DBREPLICATION_PASSWORD | Your replication user password |
Create DNSMadeEasy Credentials
Next you'll create the DNSMadeEasy credentials for the database.
Create the following credentials:
| DNSMADEEASY_USER | my_user |
| DNSMADEEASY_PASSWORD | my_passwd |
Congratulations! You've just added credentials to access your database.
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