Making the Database Part of Your Continuous Delivery Pipeline

The database, unlike other software code is not a collection of versioned files. Thus, Continuous Integration(CI) and Continuous Delivery(CD) for Database has taken a back seat to source code, leaving database automation to play a game of catch up at a high risk.

In this analogy below, the conveyor belt represents Jenkins ( or such CI tools ) , the chocolates signify the application code releases / release cycle ( powered by CICD currently ) , and Lucy and Ethel are ‘handling’ the database code.