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What is the MariaDB Connector for AWS Glue?

MariaDB connector lets you access MariaDB tables from your Glue ETL jobs. In particular, you can extract data from MariaDB using this connector within the Glue ETL job.

Connector options you need to set

• host (required) the MariaDB database host IP or domain that is publicly accessible.
• port (optional, default is 3306) the database port.
• schema (required) the schema name.
• username (required) the database user's username.
• password (required) the database user's password.
• table (required) the table name you want to pull data, consider the case sensitivity in the table name.

The recommended approach to setting the connector options

Use AWS Secrets Manager can be used to store username, password and other sensitive information related to source connection.

The IAM Role you will be using in the Glue Job should contain the following policies

AWS Glue Service - To run the job. Amazon EC2 Container Registry - To access AWS Container Registry. Secrets Manager (optional) - If you use AWS Secrets Manager for connection options.

Using the MariaDB Connector for AWS Glue

Here are the setup steps for configuring the MariaDB Connector:

1. Setup IAM Role for policies and secret AWS Secrets Manager
2. Setup MariaDB connector and a related connection on Glue Studio console.
3. Create a job.
4. Save and run the job.

Step 1: Setup IAM Role for policies and secret AWS Secrets Manager

Create role and secret:

1. IAM Role for policies as described above.
2. Optional - Create secret in AWS Secrets Manager for the connector options described above.

Step 2: Setup MariaDB connector and a related connection on Glue Studio console

To set up the MariaDB connector and create a connection for your job:

1. Subscribe to product and activate the connector using AWS Glue Studio from the top of this instruction page.
2. Enter your connection name and choose "Create connection and active connector". You can optionally add a description, "Connection access" and "Network options". If you have created an AWS secret with the connector options you can choose your AWS secret from the dropdown under "Connection access".

Step 3: Create a job

To create a job from your connection which is created in the previous step:

1. Choose the connection and "create job".
2. Select your created connection figure on the visual canvas.
3. Add connection options and enter the necessary information.
   • Follow the earlier step (Connector options you need to set) to add the connection options
   • Or you can create an AWS secret with the connector options and attach with the connection as stated in the above step 2.1
4. Enter the job name, choose IAM Role created in step 1, and other properties in the "Job details" tab, and Choose "Save"

Step 4: Save and run the job

Run the job after filling in all parameters and creating the connector job.