Using Google Cloud SQL with phpMyAdmin - via App Engine or Compute Engine? How?

[Brad Del]

Sorry if this is a stupid question (a rookie here): After all my research on this, I am still puzzled. I want to use Google Cloud SQL in an environment which is more user friendly than Google Cloud Shell (I want to avoid typing code for everything). I have a bit of experience with phpMyAdmin, so I prefer to use that. Question: what Google product should I use to install phpMyAdmin and work within it while connected to Google Cloud SQL databases: App Engine or Compute Engine? Or is it better to have the phpMyAdmin installed on my local computer?
I have tried to follow this manual: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/phpmyadmin-on-app-engine but I got stuck after the "blowfish secret" AND I am actually not sure if I am going the right way about this.
Thanks a million if anyone can point me the right direction.

[David Newgas]

There's no stupid questions ;)

Installing phpMyAdmin on GAE Standard has the advantage that it is always available but only costs you when it is used (and is probably within the free tier anyway). Installing phpMyAdmin on GCE will charge you for the GCE instance as long as it is there, but is closer to traditional phpMyAdmin installation so might be easier.

Installing phpMyAdmin on your local machine is probably not the best solution, as it means you would have to run a webserver locally. If you want to use a GUI locally, you're probably better of with something like MySQL Workbench or HeidiSQL.

If you want to proceed following the guide for phpMyAdmin on GAE we can help. What about the blowfish step has you confused?

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