Configure SSL certificates for TCP connection by using Go

Configure SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates for a TCP connection to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL by using Go's database/sql package.

Code sample

Go

To authenticate to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

package cloudsql

import (
	"database/sql"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"

	// Note: If connecting using the App Engine Flex Go runtime, use
	// "github.com/jackc/pgx/stdlib" instead, since v5 requires
	// Go modules which are not supported by App Engine Flex.
	_ "github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/stdlib"
)

// connectTCPSocket initializes a TCP connection pool for a Cloud SQL
// instance of Postgres.
func connectTCPSocket() (*sql.DB, error) {
	mustGetenv := func(k string) string {
		v := os.Getenv(k)
		if v == "" {
			log.Fatalf("Fatal Error in connect_tcp.go: %s environment variable not set.", k)
		}
		return v
	}
	// Note: Saving credentials in environment variables is convenient, but not
	// secure - consider a more secure solution such as
	// Cloud Secret Manager (https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager) to help
	// keep secrets safe.
	var (
		dbUser    = mustGetenv("DB_USER")       // e.g. 'my-db-user'
		dbPwd     = mustGetenv("DB_PASS")       // e.g. 'my-db-password'
		dbTCPHost = mustGetenv("INSTANCE_HOST") // e.g. '127.0.0.1' ('172.17.0.1' if deployed to GAE Flex)
		dbPort    = mustGetenv("DB_PORT")       // e.g. '5432'
		dbName    = mustGetenv("DB_NAME")       // e.g. 'my-database'
	)

	dbURI := fmt.Sprintf("host=%s user=%s password=%s port=%s database=%s",
		dbTCPHost, dbUser, dbPwd, dbPort, dbName)

	// (OPTIONAL) Configure SSL certificates
	// For deployments that connect directly to a Cloud SQL instance without
	// using the Cloud SQL Proxy, configuring SSL certificates will ensure the
	// connection is encrypted.
	if dbRootCert, ok := os.LookupEnv("DB_ROOT_CERT"); ok { // e.g., '/path/to/my/server-ca.pem'
		var (
			dbCert = mustGetenv("DB_CERT") // e.g. '/path/to/my/client-cert.pem'
			dbKey  = mustGetenv("DB_KEY")  // e.g. '/path/to/my/client-key.pem'
		)
		dbURI += fmt.Sprintf(" sslmode=require sslrootcert=%s sslcert=%s sslkey=%s",
			dbRootCert, dbCert, dbKey)
	}

	// dbPool is the pool of database connections.
	dbPool, err := sql.Open("pgx", dbURI)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("sql.Open: %w", err)
	}

	// ...

	return dbPool, nil
}

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