feat(infrastructure): allow ssl connection to database

backend/app/db.py

@@ -14,9 +14,12 @@ if not DATABASE_URL:
     mariadb_db = os.getenv("MARIADB_DB", "group_project")
     mariadb_user = os.getenv("MARIADB_USER", "root")
     mariadb_password = os.getenv("MARIADB_PASSWORD", "strongpassword")
+    #always use SSL except for localhost - i dont want to include certs
+    ssl_param = "?ssl=true" if mariadb_host != "localhost" else ""
+
     if mariadb_host and mariadb_db and mariadb_user and mariadb_password:
         # Use MariaDB/MySQL over async driver
-        DATABASE_URL = f"mysql+asyncmy://{mariadb_user}:{mariadb_password}@{mariadb_host}:{mariadb_port}/{mariadb_db}"
+        DATABASE_URL = f"mysql+asyncmy://{mariadb_user}:{mariadb_password}@{mariadb_host}:{mariadb_port}/{mariadb_db}{ssl_param}"
     else:
         raise Exception("Only MariaDB is supported. Please set the DATABASE_URL environment variable.")
 

deployment/app-demo-deployment.yaml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ spec:
             - containerPort: 8000
           env:
             - name: MARIADB_HOST
-              value: mariadb-repl-maxscale
+              value: mariadb-repl-maxscale.mariadb-operator.svc.cluster.local
             - name: MARIADB_PORT
               value: "3306"
             - name: MARIADB_DATABASE