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https://cloud.google.com/sql is a fully managed relational database service for MySQL, Postgresql and SQL Server. Managed Relational Databases have become so popular over the years because they provide security, scalability and backups making the work of a System Admin to be easy.

We can now install MySQL client to interact with our Mysql Database in Google Cloud sudo apt-get install mysql-client

This will log in to the MySQL database on Google Cloud via the Cloud SQL proxy making it easy for you to interact with your database from anywhere. In this guide, we have covered how to install Google Cloud SQL Auth Proxy and how to connect to Cloud SQL instances.