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Verifying migration safety

With the atlas migrate lint command, users can analyze the migration directory to detect potentially dangerous changes to the database schema. This command may be incorporated in continuous integration pipelines to enable teams to enforce desired policies with regard to schema changes.

Learn more about Atlas's analyzers

Flags​

When using migrate lint to analyze migrations, users must supply multiple parameters:

  • --dev-url a URL to a Dev-database that will be used to simulate the changes and verify their correctness.
  • --dir the URL of the migration directory, by default it is file://migrations, e.g a directory named migrations in the current working directory.

Changeset detection​

When we run the lint command, we need to instruct Atlas on how to decide what set of migration files to analyze. Currently, two modes are supported.

  • --git-base <branchName>: which selects the diff between the provided branch and the current one as the changeset.
  • --latest <n> which selects the latest n migration files as the changeset.

Output​

Users may supply a Go template string as the --log parameter to format the output of the lint command.

Examples​

Analyze all changes relative to the master Git branch:

atlas migrate lint --dir file://my/project/migrations --dev-url mysql://root:pass@localhost:3306/dev --git-base master

Analyze the latest 2 migration files:

atlas migrate lint --dir file://my/project/migrations --dev-url mysql://root:pass@localhost:3306/dev --latest 2

Format output as JSON:

atlas migrate lint --dir file://my/project/migrations --dev-url mysql://root:pass@localhost:3306/dev --git-base master --log '{{ json .Files }}'

Reference​

CLI Command Reference