Provision and Binding Database

This tutorial will talk about how to provision and consume Alibaba Cloud RDS (and OSS) by Terraform.

⚠️ This section requires your platform engineers have already enabled cloud resources addon.

Let's deploy the application below to provision Alibaba Cloud OSS and RDS cloud resources, and consume them by the web component.

apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
  name: webapp
spec:
  components:
    - name: express-server
      type: webservice
      properties:
        image: zzxwill/flask-web-application:v0.3.1-crossplane
        port: 80
      traits:
        - type: service-binding
          properties:
            envMappings:
              # environments refer to db-conn secret
              DB_PASSWORD:
                secret: db-conn                                   # 1) If the env name is the same as the secret key, secret key can be omitted.
              endpoint:
                secret: db-conn
                key: DB_PUBLIC_HOS                                # 2) If the env name is different from secret key, secret key has to be set.
              username:
                secret: db-conn
                key: DB_USER
              # environments refer to oss-conn secret
              BUCKET_NAME:
                secret: oss-conn

    - name: sample-db
      type: alibaba-rds
      properties:
        instance_name: sample-db
        account_name: oamtest
        password: U34rfwefwefffaked
        writeConnectionSecretToRef:
          name: db-conn

    - name: sample-oss
      type: alibaba-oss
      properties:
        bucket: vela-website-0911
        acl: private
        writeConnectionSecretToRef:
          name: oss-conn

The component sample-db will generate secret db-conn with these keys, and the component sample-oss will generate secret oss-conn. These secrets are binded to the Envs of component express-server by trait Service Binding. Then the component can consume instances of OSS and RDS.

Deploy and verify the application.

$ vela ls
APP     COMPONENT       TYPE        TRAITS          PHASE           HEALTHY     STATUS  CREATED-TIME
webapp  express-server  webservice  service-binding running         healthy             2021-09-08 16:50:41 +0800 CST
├─      sample-db       alibaba-rds                 running         healthy             2021-09-08 16:50:41 +0800 CST
└─      sample-oss      alibaba-oss                 running         healthy             2021-09-08 16:50:41 +0800 CST

$ vela port-forward webapp
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:8080 -> 80
Forwarding from [::1]:8080 -> 80

Forward successfully! Opening browser ...