CI/CD for Databases: A Guide for Bringing Database Changes into Your CI/CD Pipeline [2024 Edition]

The Ultimate Guide to Integrating Database Change into CI/CD Pipelines

True continuous integration and delivery for the database is not about wrapping a bunch of scripts and running them from an automation tool. In this guide, you’ll learn how to truly leverage the practices of CI/CD to significantly improve the flow of database changes through your delivery pipeline with all of the quality and guardrails that are intrinsic to a well-architected modern pipeline.

This guide is updated for 2024 to include the latest insights from database DevOps professionals at the cutting edge of the industry.

Covered in this expert guide

1. The goals & challenges of designing CI/CD pipelines
2. Batching database changes
3. Automating database “builds”
4. Ensuring quality database changes
5. Reliable and predictable database deployments
6. Trustworthy database environments
7. Sandbox databases
8. Database governance for consistency, quality, and security
9. Observability for database CI/CD
10. Measuring database CI/CD pipeline performance
11. Handling and minimizing problems with database changes
12. Bring CI/CD to the database with Liquibase

Learn the steps required to bring databases into a CI/CD pipeline

Accelerate the dev workflow

Get your game-changing applications into the hands of users, faster.

Leverage the practices of CI/CD

Collaborate efficiently with tools you already use, enabling true CI/CD for the database.

Quality & guardrails

Achieve a well-architected modern pipeline with quality built in.