Provision Instance and Database Separately

    This guide will take Alibaba Cloud RDS as an example to show how to create an RDS instance more than one database separately.

    1. terraform-alibaba addon has been enabled, version >= 1.0.3
    2. Credentials have been configured using If you have problems, you can follow to this to setup.

    Now you can get the RDS instance ID by running the following command:

    Provision the RDS database

    Using the following Application to create an RDS database. Remember to replace <your-region> and with the real values.

    You have learnt how to create an RDS instance and a database with different applications. As a platform engineer, you can use this pattern to provide database sharing the same instance to your users. When the business is growing, you can migrate database to an exclusive instance.