Using Hasura Cloud with a YugaByte Postgres database

Introduction

This guide explains how to connect a new or existing YugaByte Postgres database to a Hasura Cloud project.

Step 0: Sign up or log in to Hasura Cloud

Navigate to Hasura Cloud and sign up or log in.

Step 1: Create a Hasura Cloud project

On the Hasura Cloud dashboard, create a new project:

Create Hasura Cloud project

You will get prompted for a Postgres Database URL. We will create this in the next step and then come back here.

After the project is initialized successfully, click on Launch console to open the Hasura console in your browser.

On the Hasura console, navigate to Data -> Manage -> Connect Database -> Connect existing database:

Hasura Cloud database setup

Step 2: Create a Postgres DB on YugaByte (skip if you have an existing DB)

Log into the YugaByte Cloud dashboard.

On the YugaByte Cloud dashboard, click on Create cluster:

Create cluster on YugaByte

Select a Cloud Provider and Region and then click Create Cluster.

Note

If you’re using a database user other than the default one, make sure to give it the right Postgres permissions.

Step 3: Construct the database connection URL

The structure of the database connection URL looks as follows:

postgresql://<user-name>:<password>@<public-ip>:<postgres-port>/<db>

To get it, click on your cluster on the cluster dashboard:

Go to cluster on YugaByte

On your cluster’s dashboard, click on Connect on the top right:

Connect to cluster on YugaByte

Now you can get the connection info from the following screen:

Connection info for YugaByte
  • user-name: If you have a separate database user, the user name will be their name. If you didn’t specify a user, the default user name is admin (see after -U in the screenshot above).
  • password: If you have a separate database user, use their password. Otherwise, use the password is what follows PGPASSWORD= in the screenshot above.
  • public-ip: The public IP is what follows -h in the screenshot above.
  • postgres-port: The port is 10301 (see on the screenshot after -p). This can be configured if required.
  • db: The DB is yugabyte (see on the screenshot after -d).

Step 4: Finish connecting the database

Back on Hasura Console, enter the database URL that we retrieved in step 4:

Database setup

Then click Connect Database.

Note

For security reasons, it is recommended to set database URLs as env vars and using the env vars to connect to the databases in place of the raw database URLs.

Voilà. You are ready to start developing.

Hasura console

Next steps

You can check out our 30-Minute Hasura Basics Course and other GraphQL & Hasura Courses for a more detailed introduction to Hasura.

You can also click the gear icon to manage your Hasura Cloud project. (e.g. add collaborators, env vars or custom domains) and add an admin secret to make sure that your GraphQL endpoint and the Hasura console are not publicly accessible.

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