### Create an Engine { #create-an-engine }

A SQLModel `engine` (underneath it's actually a SQLAlchemy `engine`) is what **holds the connections** to the database.

You would have **one single `engine` object** for all your code to connect to the same database.

{* ../../docs_src/sql_databases/tutorial001_an_py310.py ln[14:18] hl[14:15,17:18] *}

    assertContent("This comes after a busted connection", response2)

    // Check that a fresh connection was created, either immediately or after attempting reuse.
    // We know that a fresh connection was created if the server recorded a request with sequence
    // number 0. Since the client may have attempted to reuse the broken connection just before

    DISCONNECTED(0),     // Not connected
    CONNECTING(1),       // Connection in progress
    AUTHENTICATING(2),   // Authentication in progress
    ESTABLISHED(3),      // Ready for use
    BINDING(4),         // Channel binding in progress
    ACTIVE(5),          // Actively transferring data
    FAILED(6),          // Connection failed
    CLOSING(7);         // Closing connection
    
    private final int value;
    

- When client certificate files are provided, reload files for new connections, and close connections when a certificate changes. ([#79083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79083), [@jackkleeman](https://github.com/jackkleeman)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Node and Testing]

loop to wait for Minio service to be available connectToMinio() { SCHEME=$1 ATTEMPTS=0 ; LIMIT=29 ; # Allow 30 attempts set -e ; # fail if we can't read the keys. ACCESS=$(cat /config/rootUser) ; SECRET=$(cat /config/rootPassword) ; set +e ; # The connections to minio are allowed to fail. echo "Connecting to Minio server: $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT" ; MC_COMMAND="${MC} config host add myminio $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT $ACCESS $SECRET" ; $MC_COMMAND ; STATUS=$? ; until [ $STATUS...

* Add conntrack as a dependency of kubelet and kubeadm when building rpms and debs. Both require conntrack to handle cleanup of connections. ([#71540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71540), [@mauilion](https://github.com/mauilion))
* UDP connections now support graceful termination in IPVS mode ([#71515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71515), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

loop to wait for Minio service to be available connectToMinio() { SCHEME=$1 ATTEMPTS=0 ; LIMIT=29 ; # Allow 30 attempts set -e ; # fail if we can't read the keys. ACCESS=$(cat /config/rootUser) ; SECRET=$(cat /config/rootPassword) ; set +e ; # The connections to minio are allowed to fail. echo "Connecting to Minio server: $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT" ; MC_COMMAND="${MC} config host add myminio $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT $ACCESS $SECRET" ; $MC_COMMAND ; STATUS=$? ; until [ $STATUS...

loop to wait for Minio service to be available connectToMinio() { SCHEME=$1 ATTEMPTS=0 ; LIMIT=29 ; # Allow 30 attempts set -e ; # fail if we can't read the keys. ACCESS=$(cat /config/rootUser) ; SECRET=$(cat /config/rootPassword) ; set +e ; # The connections to minio are allowed to fail. echo "Connecting to Minio server: $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT" ; MC_COMMAND="${MC} config host add myminio $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT $ACCESS $SECRET" ; $MC_COMMAND ; STATUS=$? ; until [ $STATUS...

loop to wait for Minio service to be available connectToMinio() { SCHEME=$1 ATTEMPTS=0 ; LIMIT=29 ; # Allow 30 attempts set -e ; # fail if we can't read the keys. ACCESS=$(cat /config/rootUser) ; SECRET=$(cat /config/rootPassword) ; set +e ; # The connections to minio are allowed to fail. echo "Connecting to Minio server: $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT" ; MC_COMMAND="${MC} config host add myminio $SCHEME://$MINIO_ENDPOINT:$MINIO_PORT $ACCESS $SECRET" ; $MC_COMMAND ; STATUS=$? ; until [ $STATUS...

## Deployment Recommendations

### Allow port access for Firewalls

By default MinIO uses the port 9000 to listen for incoming connections. If your platform blocks the port by default, you may need to enable access to the port.

### ufw