The Hard Truth about GitOps and Database Rollbacks

For two decades, the common practice for handling rollbacks of database schema migrations has been pre-planned "down migration scripts".

A closer examination of this widely accepted truth reveals critical gaps that result in teams relying on risky, manual operations to roll back schema migrations in times of crisis.

In his #KubeCon session, my CTO @ Ariga - Rotem Tamir shows why existing tools and practices cannot deliver on the #GitOps promise of "declarative" and "continuously reconciled" workflows and how we can use the Operator Pattern to build a new solution for robust and safe schema rollbacks.

Watch, read, and build

https://atlasgo.io/blog/2024/11/14/the-hard-truth-about-gitops-and-db-rollbacks