title: Way to query CloudSql from Django app
body: <p>I am trying to find an effective way to query a Google Cloud SQL database from my Django app. This app is not hosting on App Engine, just on a local server.</p>
  
  <p>I have found a couple of links:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/cloud-sql/#Python_Connect_to_your_database" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This one is a generic python connector</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19086517/connect-django-to-google-cloud-sql">This answer</a> mentions a way to do it from a local Django app, but it looks like it is more for testing.</p>
  
  <p>I am not looking to use CloudSQL as my app backend, just make occasional queries to it (probably something daily to read all records in one CloudSQL table, and update a local database with the result)</p>