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Developer Self-Service

The trusted way to accelerate delivery with confidence

Modern CI/CD puts developers in the driver’s seat. Liquibase Secure extends that model to the database, combining speed with governance so every change is safe, visible, and compliant.

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What is Developer Self-Service for Database Change?

Database change remains the last bottleneck in software delivery. Developers can ship code, provision infrastructure, and refresh data pipelines in minutes. Yet schema changes are still slowed by DBA tickets, manual reviews, and brittle scripts.
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Liquibase Secure closes this gap. Policy Checks, Flows, Drift Detection, and Observability embed governance into the developer workflow. With version 5.0, enterprises also get everything bundled out of the box, including extensions, drivers, and components, along with Liquibase Secure DEV, a native IDE experience that reduces friction and keeps developers in their flow.

The Challenge

Manual reviews and tickets delay every release.
Liquibase Community automation speeds up developers but without controls, every change is a high risk.
Auditors scramble to find evidence across fragmented logs.
Gartner estimates up to 80% of application downtime is caused by database change.

The Result?

It’s where releases get delayed, where risk creeps in, and where your entire investment in DevOps and data platforms starts to fall apart.

How Liquibase Secure Helps

Liquibase Secure delivers developer self-service for database change with built-in guardrails to move faster and safer.

Shift left with control

Faster delivery, better developer experience

Deploy with confidence

Shift left with control

Policy Checks validate schema rules, naming standards, and permissions directly in developer workflows. Liquibase Secure integrates with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI to enforce governance in every pipeline and block risky changes before they reach production.

Automate paved paths

Liquibase Flows standardize deployments across environments, eliminating tickets and rework. Developers move faster, DBAs spend less time on approvals, and releases become consistent and predictable.

Eliminate drift

Drift Detection continuously identifies untracked or out-of-band changes and stops them from spreading downstream. This preserves environment integrity, reduces incidents, and builds trust between dev, test, and production.

Deliver visibility

Observability and tamper-evident history ensure every change is logged, exportable, and always audit-ready. Compliance teams gain confidence, audits become faster, and security gaps are closed before they escalate.

Recover faster

Targeted Rollback reverses specific issues in minutes instead of hours. Teams minimize downtime, reduce MTTR, and protect customer experience during production incidents.

Liquibase Secure Developer Self-Service Framework

The capabilities that make developer autonomy safe at scale:

Category	How Liquibase Secure Helps	Outcome
Blocked Delivery	Liquibase Flows orchestrate repeatable deployments	Faster, consistent releases without waiting on reviews
Risky Changes	Policy Checks enforce schema rules and permissions in CI/CD	Risky changes never reach production
Environmental Drift	Drift Detection identifies out-of-band updates	Integrity maintained across environments
Audit Gaps	Observability and structured logs track every change	Always audit-ready with tamper-evident evidence
Slow Recovery	Targeted Rollback reverts specific changes quickly	Reduced downtime and faster recovery

Business Outcomes

Release database changes at developer speed without sacrificing safety

Reduce change failures and unplanned downtime

Always be audit-ready with structured, tamper-evident logs

Free DBAs from tickets so they can focus on higher-value work

Proof in Action:
Bancolombia | Banking

Challenge

Agile development teams were outpacing DBA capacity, creating a backlog of database changes. Without proper governance or automation, deployments took up to 1.5 days per environment. DBAs were stuck on manual tasks while compliance risks mounted due to the lack of standardized enforcement.

Solution

Bancolombia implemented Liquibase to automate deployments, enforce governance, and accelerate delivery. By embedding Liquibase into their CI/CD workflows, they eliminated manual steps, improved traceability, and standardized releases across environments, empowering developers without sacrificing security or control.

“We chose Liquibase because they resolved issues right away, validated our processes, and validated our strategies.”

Santiago Cadavid

DevOps Director, Bancolombia

210x

Increase in deployment frequency (from 1 every 5 days to 42 per day)

108x

Faster deployment time (from 1.5 days to 20 minutes)

64x

Reduction in DBA time spent on changes, freeing capacity for performance and strategy

Resources to Accelerate Your Developer Self-Service Journey

Explore our library of guides, case studies, webinars, and blogs designed to help you scale safe, governed self-service for database change.

Blog

Implementing Shift Left the Right Way

Bring database change into your modern delivery pipeline

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Guide

The Guide to Database DevOps

Bring database changes into your CI/CD pipelines

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ebook

Quantify the Value of Liquibase Secure

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FAQ

Can developers already self-serve with Liquibase Community?

Liquibase Community provides automation, but without governance and visibility every change becomes high risk. Liquibase Secure delivers true enterprise-grade self-service with Policy Checks, Drift Detection, Flows, and Observability.

How does Liquibase Secure reduce DBA workload?

By embedding controls into developer workflows, Liquibase Secure eliminates the need for manual reviews and tickets. DBAs spend less time on approvals and more time on strategic initiatives.

What makes Liquibase Secure 5.0 “all-in-the-box”?

Liquibase Secure 5.0 includes every extension, driver, and component in one distribution. Enterprises no longer waste time assembling dependencies and can start faster with a platform built for mission-critical work.

How does Liquibase Secure DEV improve adoption?

Secure DEV is a native VS Code extension that lets developers author and validate changelogs directly inside their IDE. It reduces context switching and accelerates adoption by keeping developers in their flow.

How does Liquibase Secure integrate with CI/CD pipelines?

Liquibase Secure runs natively in CI/CD systems like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and GitLab CI. Policy Checks, Flows, and Drift Detection plug directly into pipelines to block risky changes and enforce governance without slowing developers down.

Can I use Liquibase Secure with GitHub Actions?

Yes. Liquibase provides a GitHub Action that automates changelog validation, deployment, and policy enforcement. Policy Check results run automatically in CI/CD and surface as status checks on pull requests, giving developers feedback before code is merged.