Professional Cloud Architect - Google Cloud Certification Guide

Creating and managing Cloud SQL

Now that we have an understanding of the concepts, let's look at how to create a new MySQL instance:

1. Go to the navigation menu and then go to STORAGE | SQL:

2. Click on Create an instance.
3. Select the database engine you require. In our example, we will select MySQL. By default, this is second generation:

4. Give the instance a name and a password. You can either enter your own password or click Generate to receive a random password. Additionally, you can select a location and database version. We will leave the ...