25 posts tagged with "atlas"

Hi Everyone,

It's been a few weeks since our last release, and I'm very excited to share with you the news of Atlas v0.27. In this release, you will find:

• Atlas Schema Monitoring: A new product that provides a set of tools and features to help you manage and monitor your database schema effectively.
• Pay via AWS Marketplace: Atlas users can now pay for their Atlas subscription via the AWS Marketplace.
• Atlas HCL Doc Portal: A new portal that contains always up to date, automatically generated documentation for the Atlas HCL language.

Introducing Schema Monitoring​

The hallmark of this release is a new product we call Atlas Schema Monitoring. Atlas Schema Monitoring provides a set of tools and features to help you manage and monitor your database schema effectively. Teams install an agent (container) on their database VPC which tracks changes to the database schema and reports metadata to the Atlas Cloud control plane. Using this metadata Atlas Schema Monitoring provides:

1. Live visibility of your database schema with automated ER diagrams and auto-generated documentation.
2. A Changelog of schema changes, so you can see how schemas change over time, and easily triage schema change related issues.
3. Alerts Use Webhooks or Slack notifications to inform or alert teams that need to know about schema changes or drift.

Starting today, we are providng one free monitored instance to all signed up Atlas users.

A Live Demo is available for you to try out.

Hi everyone,

It's been about a month since our last release, and we're excited to announce that Atlas v0.26 is now available! In this release we are happy to introduce a new feature that has been requested by many of you: support for Entity Framework Core. As part of our ever going effort to improve the quality and coverage of our documentation, we have published a set of guides on testing database schemas and migrations as well as a new GORM Portal.

Additionally, we have published an official "Supported Version Policy" and made some changes to our EULA, described below.

Hi everyone,

We are updating you on a pricing change we will be rolling out to Atlas Cloud on March 15th, 2024.

As you know, Atlas is an open-core project, which means that while its core is an Apache 2-licensed open-source project, we are building it as a commercial, cloud-connected solution built and supported by our company, Ariga. As with any startup, our understanding of the product and the market are constantly evolving, and this pricing change is a reflection of that evolution.

Atlas Plans​

Even through this change, we will keep providing the Atlas community with three options for how to consume Atlas.

• Free Plan (formerly "Community Plan") - for individuals and small teams that want to unlock the full potential of Atlas. This plan will remain free forever and provides full access to all the capabilities of Atlas as a CLI as well as access to enough Atlas Cloud quota to successfully manage a single project. Support is provided via public community support channels.

• Business Plan (formerly "Team Plan") - for teams professionally using Atlas beyond a single project. This plan has the same features and capabilities as the Free Plan but allows teams to purchase additional quotas if required. In addition, teams subscribing to this plan will get access to priority email support and in-app support via Intercom.

• Enterprise Plan - for larger organizations looking to solve schema management at scale. This plan includes a dedicated support channel, solution engineering, and other features required for adoption by enterprises.

Hi everyone!

It's been a few weeks since our last version announcement and today I'm happy to share with you
v0.15, which includes some very exciting improvements for Atlas:

• Interactive Declarative Migrations - Atlas supports a Terraform-like workflow for managing your database schema using the schema apply command. In this release we have added a new "Lint and Edit" mode to this command, which will analyze your schema changes for issues and will allow you to edit them interactively before applying them to your database.
• Functions and Stored Procedures - Atlas now supports creating and managing functions and stored procedures in your database schema.
• Postgres Domains - In addition, Atlas now supports Postgres Domains . A domain is essentially a data type with optional constraints (restrictions on the allowed set of values).
• TypeORM Integration - TypeORM is a popular ORM for Node.js. In this release, we are happy to announce the TypeORM integration, which allows you to automatically generate your database schema from your TypeORM entities, create visualizations and more.

Let's dive right in!

Introduction​

As your application's data model evolves, you will need to make changes to your database schema. In today's world, where teams are expected to own their infrastructure and ship code faster than ever, it is important to have a reliable and repeatable process for managing database schema changes.

Atlas lets you manage your database schema as code. It is a modern schema management tool that applies concepts from modern DevOps tools to database schema management. Using Atlas, teams can automatically plan, verify, deploy and monitor database schema changes.

Microsoft SQL Server, one of the longest-standing database engines in our business, was first released by Microsoft in 1989. MS-SQL is the go-to database for Windows environments in many industries.

In this guide, we will demonstrate how to use Atlas to automatically generate migrations for your Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to share with you some of the recent improvements to Atlas, specifcially around GitHub Actions. In August of last year, we released our first version of the GitHub Actions experience for Atlas. It was a modest start, which included the ability to verify the safety and correctness of schema migrations during the CI process.

Over the past year, we have slowly added more features to the GitHub Actions experience, including the ability to sync migration directories to Atlas Cloud, deploy migrations, and even install Atlas. As often happens with quickly evolving systems, we felt that the API became complex, carrying over use cases and experiences that have become obsolete or superseded by better ones since the initial release.

At Ariga, the team developing Atlas, we have written a document named the "R&D Manifesto", which lists some the principles that we commit to as individuals and as an organization. One of them is "Obsess over APIs and DevEx" - we believe that the key to building a successful product is to provide the best possible experience to our users, and that starts with clear, consistent and composable APIs that empower our users to achieve amazing feats of engineering.

With that in mind, our team has been working hard in the past few weeks to revamp the GitHub Actions experience for Atlas. Here's a quick summary of the changes:

1. We've moved all actions into a single repo - ariga/atlas-action. (With the exception of ariga/setup-atlas.)
2. The API has been reviewed and updated to make sure it is consistent among the different actions and with the rest of the Atlas ecosystem.
3. We've rewritten the code in Go, which is the language we use for all of our internal tools. This allows us to share code between the CLI and the GitHub Actions, and to provide a more consistent experience between the two. In addition, looking forward we have greatly simplified the process of adding new GitHub Actions as needed.

Hi everyone!

It's been a few weeks since our last version announcement and today I'm happy to share with you
v0.14, which includes some very exciting improvements for Atlas:

• Checkpoints - as your migration directory grows, replaying it from scratch can become annoyingly slow. Checkpoints allow you to save the state of your database at a specific point in time and replay migrations from that point forward.
• Push to the Cloud - you can now push your migration directory to Atlas Cloud directly from the CLI. Think of it like docker push for your database migrations.
• JetBrains Editor Support - After launching our VSCode Extension a few months ago, our team has been hard at work to bring the same experience to JetBrains IDEs. Starting today, you can use Atlas directly from your favorite JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, GoLand, etc.) using the new Atlas plugin.

Let's dive right in!

TL;DR​

Atlas now supports AWS IAM authentication, which enables you to perform passwordless schema migrations on your RDS databases. To use it with Atlas, add the aws_rds_token data source to your atlas.hcl configuration file:

data "aws_rds_token" "mydb" {
  endpoint = "mydb.123456789012.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:3306"
  username = "atlas"
}

To skip the intro and jump straight to the tutorial, click here.

Introduction​

When we started building Atlas a couple of years ago, we noticed that there was a substantial gap between what was then considered state-of-the-art in managing database schemas and the recent strides from Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to managing cloud infrastructure.

In this post, we review that gap and show how Atlas – along with its Terraform provider – can bridge the two domains.

As an aside, I usually try to keep blog posts practical and to the point, but occasionally think it’s worth it to zoom out and explain the grander ideas behind what we do.

If you’re looking for a quick and practical explanation of working with Atlas and Terraform, I recommend this YouTube video.

Today we are happy to announce that Atlas Cloud, our cloud offering, has achieved SOC2 compliance. This is a big milestone for us, which shows our determination to providing solid infrastructure for our users and customers.

SOC2 is a security and compliance standard that helps organizations demonstrate their ability to protect customer data and ensure the availability of their services. It’s like an independent third-party audit that evaluates how well a company follows industry-standard security practices, covering areas such as availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

Achieving SOC2 compliance requires a significant investment in time, effort, and resources, so you may be wondering why we decided to pursue this goal so early in the life of our product. The knee-jerk response of any seasoned engineer to large and long infrastructure projects should is:

YAGNI. You ain’t gonna need it.