postgres command¶

The postgres command can be used to connect to a cloudsql postgres database with your personal user It includes subcommands for granting personal access to an instance, setting up a cloudsql proxy, and connecting to the database using a psql shell.

All command have the following global flags avaiable:

Flag	Required	Short	Default	Description
namespace	No	-n	namespace set in kubeconfig	Kubernetes namespace where app is deployed
cluster	No	-c	context set in kubeconfig	Kubernetes context where app is deployed

Note all flags has to appear before arguments (otherwise the flags will be interpreted as arguments). So global flags for Postgres needs to be positioned after nais postgres:

OK:

nais postgres --context dev-gcp --namespace dreamteam proxy

Not OK:

nais postgres proxy --context dev-gcp --namespace dreamteam

Warning

Run the following command first before running any of the other commands:

gcloud auth login --update-adc

prepare¶

Prepare will prepare the postgres instance by connecting using the application credentials and modify the permissions on the public schema. All IAM users in your GCP project will be able to connect to the instance.

This operation is only required to run once for each postgresql instance.

nais postgres prepare appname

Argument	Required	Description
appname	Yes	Name of application owning the database

Flag	Required	Short	Default	Description
all-privs	No		false	If true `ALL` is granted, else only `SELECT` is granted

revoke¶

Revokes the privileges given to the role cloudsqliamuser. Does not remove access for users to log in to the database or the roles/cloudsql.admin given to the user in GCP console.

This operation is only required to run once for each postgresql instance.

nais postgres revoke appname

Argument	Required	Description
appname	Yes	Name of application owning the database

grant¶

Grant yourself access to a Postgres database.

This is done by temporarily adding your user to the list of users that can administrate Cloud SQL instances and creating a database user with your email.

This operation is only required to run once for each postgresql database.

nais postgres grant appname

Argument	Required	Description
appname	Yes	Name of application owning the database

proxy¶

Update IAM policies by giving your user a timed sql.cloudsql.instanceUser role, then start a proxy to the instance.

nais postgres proxy appname

Argument	Required	Description
appname	Yes	Name of application owning the database

Flag	Required	Short	Default	Description
port	No	-p	5432	Local port for cloudsql proxy to listen on
host	No	-H	localhost	Host for the proxy

Note When using proxy to connect to the database, the auth method is username and password. The username is your full Google account email: e.g. ola.bruker@nais.io, and password is blank.

psql¶

Create a shell to the postgres instance by opening a proxy on a random port (see the proxy command for more info) and opening a psql shell.

nais postgres psql appname

Argument	Required	Description
appname	Yes	Name of application owning the database

Flag	Required	Short	Default	Description
verbose	No	-V	false	Verbose will print proxy log

users add¶

Adds a user to the database By default the user is granted select privileges to the database public schema The privilege level can be altered with the --privilege flag.

nais postgres users add username password appname

Argument	Required	Description
username	Yes	Name of the new database user
password	Yes	Password for the new database user
appname	Yes	Name of application owning the database

Flag	Required	Short	Default	Description
privilege	No		select	The privilege level the user is granted

users list¶

Lists all users in a database.

nais postgres users list appname

Argument	Required	Description
appname	Yes	Name of application owning the database

password rotate¶

Rotate the Postgres database password, both in GCP and in the Kubernetes secret.

nais postgres password rotate appname

Argument	Required	Description
appname	Yes	Name of application owning the database

Last update: 2023-07-24
Created: 2022-01-31