Databases

FASRC does not provide any hosted database options. That said users are welcome to spin up any database they wish as part of a job. Some considerations if you choose to do this:

1. The database will have no public internet access.
2. The database will be available to all users and all nodes on the cluster. Thus you will need to put in appropriate access security. You will also want to size job appropriately to handle any traffic to the database.
3. The database will need to run in user space (i.e. no root, no sudo).
4. The database job will need to handle start up and shutdown with in the time span of the job.
5. Data for the database should be stored on permanent storage unless purely transient.

If you need permanent database hosting we recommend setting up the database via your preferred cloud provider. The cluster has general internet access and can reach out to external databases and use them.