While Clever Cloud makes it easy for you to deploy your applications, our platform is also highly appreciated for its managed databases. Using our API, CLI or Console, you can create MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch and, of course, our Materia KV serverless offering.
Like all our other solutions, our databases are not only easy to configure, they also come with turnkey tooling, whether for association with one or more applications, logging, metrics, management interfaces, etc. This tooling is constantly being improved to better meet our customers’ needs.
This sometimes leads to in-house developments, such as our “Explorer”, which we’ll be talking about shortly. But we also seek to associate ourselves with partners offering services that correspond to our philosophy, bringing value and simplicity to our customers. And that’s what Azimutt offers.
Azimutt: a new way to explore your SQL databases (among others)
We’ve been following this startup, founded by Loïc Knuchel, for several years now. The engineer, who has also worked for Criteo, Zeenea and Doctolib, has created a tool for visualizing and exploring in detail the content of databases (tables, relations, constraints, etc.), especially for very large ones. But also to document them, to analyze them in order to identify possible problems and improve performance, and to carry out this work in a team in a pleasant interface, integrating AI functionalities.
The tool is entirely open source, and relies in part on its Gateway, launched as an external service, for all database connections. It can be launched on the user’s machine or hosted on servers. As a result, nothing passes through Azimutt’s infrastructure, and local databases can be explored too. You can also import your schema with a SQL file or define it using Azimutt Markup Language (AML).
Loïc decided a few months ago to devote himself fully to this project, so it was obvious for us to support him when he applied for our “UP” program. It was also an opportunity for us to go one step further and integrate Azimutt into the Clever Cloud marketplace, enabling everyone to distribute their services within our platform, for certain organizations or all our customers.
How to use Azimutt on Clever Cloud
So we worked with Loïc to offer Azimutt on Clever Cloud. We host our own gateway, which you benefit from, when you create an Azimutt add-on (your data on Clever Cloud, stay on Clever Cloud). By default, you’ll have access to the free offer for easy exploration of your databases.
To collaborate as a team and improve understanding of your enterprise-wide data model, other plans are available. Payment will be made through your monthly invoice, like any other of our services.
As with any add-on, creation can be done via our API, the Console or Clever Tools :
clever addon create azimutt myAzimutt
clever consoleOnce the add-on has been created, you’ll be presented with a page in which you simply type in the URI of a relational database to access it in the Azimutt interface. Your account will be created, your subscription configured, there’s nothing more to do.
As we have always advocated for an open approach to the Cloud, not blocking customers to one provider, this solution works whether or not databases are hosted at Clever Cloud. This includes SQL databases an non-SQL databases such as MongoDB, MySQL PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, Amazon Aurora/SDS, Azure SQL, Big Query, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle, Snowflake, etc. The full list of connectors is available on the Azimutt website.
This is just the first step in the integration of Azimutt, which we’ll further integrate into our platform and its managed database offering over the coming months. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please let us know in our GitHub community space. This will help us to improve this product, both on the Clever Cloud side and on the Azimutt side.
Want to find out more? Feel free to deploy and use the service from our Console. A presentation by Loïc and our head of DevRel Horacio will be held this thursday, October 24 from 1pm to 2 pm on our Twitch channel.