MySQL on Engine Yard:
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A Zero-Management, highly available cloud database for your Engine Yard’s MySQL application
Xeround’s cloud database provides unlimited scalability, built-in replicas and automatic failover for high availability — all in a plug-&-play, simple database service.
Xeround’s add-on for Engine Yard provides simple one-click integration between Engine Yard’s applications and Xeround’s Database-as-a-Service.
Initially, Xeround’s add-on is integrated with Engine Yard’s Orchestra PHP Platform, and will later expand to Engine Yard’s Ruby cloud.
Xeround’s add-on allows Orchestra users to create their Xeround DB instance with a single click from within the Orchestra environment. This automatically creates a highly-available, zero-management, cloud database that easily connects to their PHP application.
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There are two ways you can use Xeround Cloud Database with your Engine Yard MySQL application:
Creating your cloud database directly from Engine Yard’s Orchestra PHP Platform
At the moment, Xeround’s add-on for Orchestra only offers Xeround FREE plan – for testing purposes and for small-scale web applications. In the coming months, we’ll be rolling out a range of paid plans.
How to use Xeround Cloud Database Add-on for Engine Yard?
- Log in to your Orchestra Addons Dashboard
- Enable the Xeround Cloud Databases Addon
- Click “Manage Addon”
- Click “Create Database” and create a free developer database
- Your database will take a few minutes to initialize
- Once that’s done, configure the database connection settings in your app
- Deploy your app to Orchestra.
Creating your cloud database from Xeround
For larger database sizes and advanced features, Orchestra users can create their cloud database directly from Xeround, choosing either Xeround BASIC or Xeround PRO plans, and then connect it to their Orchestra application.
How to connect your Orchestra MySQL app to your Xeround Cloud Database:
- Sign up to create your free cloud database or to start your 14-day free trial of any of Xeround’s paid editions.
- Log in to the online console and click “Create New” and fill in the form to create your new Cloud Database instance:
- Make sure to set your Data Center to Amazon-EC2-US-East.
- Note down the username and password you specify for your DB – you’ll need this later!
- Wait for the database instance to initialize
- Click on the External DNS hostname shown in the Details tab, and login to phpMyAdmin
- Click “Databases” in the bar at the top of the page and create a new database
- Using the Internal DNS hostname shown in the Details tab, configure the database connection settings in your Orchestra app
- Deploy your app to Orchestra.
