---
title: Cloud SQL Admin
type: docs
weight: 1
description: "A \"cloud-sql-admin\" source provides a client for the Cloud SQL Admin API.\n"
aliases: [/resources/sources/cloud-sql-admin]
---
## About
The `cloud-sql-admin` source provides a client to interact with the [Google
Cloud SQL Admin API](https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/admin-api). This
allows tools to perform administrative tasks on Cloud SQL instances, such as
creating users and databases.
Authentication can be handled in two ways:
1. **Application Default Credentials (ADC):** By default, the source uses ADC
to authenticate with the API.
2. **Client-side OAuth:** If `useClientOAuth` is set to `true`, the source will
expect an OAuth 2.0 access token to be provided by the client (e.g., a web
browser) for each request.
## Example
```yaml
sources:
my-cloud-sql-admin:
kind: cloud-sql-admin
my-oauth-cloud-sql-admin:
kind: cloud-sql-admin
useClientOAuth: true
```
## Reference
| **field** | **type** | **required** | **description** |
| -------------- | :------: | :----------: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| kind | string | true | Must be "cloud-sql-admin". |
| defaultProject | string | false | The Google Cloud project ID to use for Cloud SQL infrastructure tools. |
| useClientOAuth | boolean | false | If true, the source will use client-side OAuth for authorization. Otherwise, it will use Application Default Credentials. Defaults to `false`. |