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afterdigital/laravel-iam-db-auth
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AWS IAM database auth package for laravel

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Laravel IAM DB Authentication
-----------------------------

[](#laravel-iam-db-authentication)

**This is a work in progress**

*I created this package after being asked to use this method of database connection for a client project. I found very litte information online covering this so there was a lot of trial and error.*

*This will probably not work out of the box for your own needs but will hopefully act as a starting point to help you get set up.*

This is a package to connect Laravel with a AWS RDS instance using IAM authentication

It includes a service provider that gives the framework our overridden MySQL connector class when it asks for an MySQL connection.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

require this package with composer:

```
composer require afterdigital/laravel-iam-db-auth
```

Add the IamDatabaseConnectorProvider to your config/app.php

Add a mysql\_iam connection to the config array in config/database.php

```
'mysql_iam' => [
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
    'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
    'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'database_name'),
    'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'database_username'),
    'password' => '',
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
    'prefix' => '',
    'strict' => false,
    'engine' => null,
    'aws_profile' => env('AWS_PROFILE'),
    'aws_credential_path' => env('AWS_CREDENTIAL_PATH'),
    'aws_region' => env('AWS_REGION'),
    'use_iam_auth' => env('DB_USE_IAM_AUTH', true),
    'options' => array(
        'MYSQLI_READ_DEFAULT_FILE' => env('MYSQL_CNF_FILE', '/path/to/cnf/file'),
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA    => env('RDS_CA_BUNDLE', '/path/to/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem'),
    ),
],
```

Obtain the rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem from

###  Health Score

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Maintenance16

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Popularity12

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Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity37

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