alloydb-basics

What it is

AlloyDB Basics is a Google Cloud skill that teaches AI agents how to create and manage AlloyDB for PostgreSQL -- Google's enterprise-grade, PostgreSQL-compatible managed database service featuring disaggregated compute/storage architecture and built-in AI capabilities. The skill provides a quick start guide for enabling the AlloyDB API, creating clusters, and provisioning primary instances using gcloud commands. A defining aspect is the security-first agent directives that are mandatory in all responses: prioritizing Private IP connectivity, requiring secure connection methods (Auth Proxy or language-specific connectors), recommending IAM authentication over passwords, enforcing least-privilege access, and explicitly warning against exposed public databases with 0.0.0.0/0 configurations. These directives ensure that any agent using this skill guides developers toward secure database setups by default. The skill includes a reference directory linking to detailed guides on architecture, CLI usage, MCP tools integration, infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, and security configuration. It also provides links to official connector repositories for Java, Python, and Go. The skill discourages direct TCP connections in favor of the Auth Proxy for both development and production environments.

Who it's for

• Google Cloud developers
• database administrators
• backend engineers
• DevOps teams

Requirements

Setup

1. Step 1

   bashCopy

   Install from Google skills repository: npx skills add google/skills --skill alloydb-basics

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