Before you begin

In addition to having a cluster deployed in Yugabyte Cloud, you need the following to run the sample applications with Yugabyte Cloud:

• The cluster CA certificate. Yugabyte Cloud uses TLS 1.2 for communicating with clusters, and digital certificates to verify the identity of clusters. The cluster CA certificate is used to verify the identity of the cluster when you connect to it from an application or client.
• Your computer added to the cluster IP allow list. Access to Yugabyte Cloud clusters is limited to IP addresses that you explicitly allow using IP allow lists. To enable applications to connect to your cluster, you need to add your computer's IP address to the cluster IP allow list.

Download your cluster certificate

To download the certificate to the computer that will be connecting to the cluster, do the following:

1. In Yugabyte Cloud, select your cluster and click Connect.
2. Click YugabyteDB Client Shell or Connect to your Application.
3. Click Download CA Cert to download the cluster root.crt certificate to your computer.

Add your computer to the cluster IP allow list

To add your computer to the cluster IP allow list:

1. In Yugabyte Cloud, select your cluster.
2. Click Quick Links and choose Edit IP Allow List.
3. Click Create New List and Add to Cluster.
4. Click Detect and add my IP to this list to add your own IP address.
5. Click Save.

The allow list takes up to 30 seconds to become active.

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IP allow lists

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