Automate testing and deployment of MariaDB schema and data changes through continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
Automated pipelines catch errors early, enforce coding standards, and ship schema changes faster. Manual SQL execution invites drift and outages; CI/CD makes each change repeatable and visible.
All major CI platforms—GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI—can spin up a MariaDB Docker container, run migration scripts, and tear everything down in minutes.
Name each file with an incremental prefix like V20231027_001_create_orders.sql
. Store scripts in db/migrations/
.Tools such as Flyway or Liquibase track applied revisions automatically.
-- V20231027_001_create_orders.sqlCREATE TABLE Orders ( id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, customer_id INT NOT NULL, order_date DATE, total_amount DECIMAL(10,2));
Use a job step that spins up MariaDB, installs Flyway, and executes flyway migrate
.Fail the build if Flyway returns a non-zero exit code.
jobs: test-db: runs-on: ubuntu-latest services: mariadb: image: mariadb:11 env: MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD: root ports: [3306:3306] steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v3 - name: Run migrations run: flyway -url="jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/test" -user=root -password=root migrate
Place deterministic inserts in db/seed/
. Run them after migrations so integration tests operate on realistic ecommerce data.
INSERT INTO Customers (name,email,created_at)VALUES ('Ada Lovelace','ada@example.com',NOW());
Use blue-green or rolling releases.Apply migrations before application rollout. Add IF NOT EXISTS
guards to DDL to keep re-runs idempotent.
1. Keep migrations immutable.
2. Test backups with mariadb-dump
in CI.
3. Enforce code review for every SQL file.
4. Monitor schema drift using periodic checks.
Running SET foreign_key_checks=0
hides problems. Keep checks on; fix order or data issues instead.
Large .sql
dumps bloat the repo and fail merges.Store only incremental migrations; create dumps as CI artifacts when needed.
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Yes, but prefer disposable containers for clean test runs. Persist only if you need performance gains for large datasets.
No. Liquibase, Skeema, Atlas, and dev-friendly ORMs like Prisma also support MariaDB migrations in CI/CD pipelines.