Background

For production deployments, Coder requires an external database. While you can mount a secret with the database URL, some database services such as AWS RDS have short-lived tokens and different ways to connect as well, such as the RDS API.

In Coder v1, we added an explicit feature to authenticate with the RDS API:

• https://github.com/coder/v1/blob/master/product/coder/pkg/database/dbawsiamrds/connector.go
• https://coder.com/docs/v1/v1.44/guides/deployments/postgres#using-aws-iam-to-authenticate-with-an-rds-instance

Requirements

See the linked customer issue for more details on implementation notes