Color-coded Checks for your Current Flyway Environment

This article shows how to provide clearer feedback from the Flyway CLI by using environment-specific placeholders to provide details about the environment's purpose. It then illustrates how you might use this information to allow a scripted Flyway pipeline to give a simple code-coded message confirming the connected environment. Read more

PostgreSQL Table partitions now supported in Flyway

This blog post was originally authored by Prajakta Tamhankar, whose insights and expertise shaped much of the content you’ll read here. We are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Table Partitions for PostgreSQL users in Flyway v8.0.2. This new functionality is designed to enhance your database management experience by providing robust support for table Read more

Defining and Using Multiple Flyway Environments in TOML

This article shows how to define environments in your TOML files, use resolvers to provide secure connection details, and configure per-environment overrides and placeholders. It explains how this approach simplifies automation, makes CI/CD pipelines easier to manage, and helps teams work consistently and securely across multiple databases. Read more

Managing Credentials Securely with Flyway Resolvers

One of the problems that creeps up on you as a Flyway project grows is how to manage securely the different credentials Flyway needs to access all the databases it needs to migrate. It's easy enough to get started by storing them in the TOML config files, but that approach isn't viable once you're dealing with sensitive data, multiple environments, or stricter security requirements. Fortunately, Flyway's Property Resolvers give us several ways to pull credentials, connection information and other config details from secure stores, such as secrets managers, at runtime. Read more

The Flyway Add Command Explained Simply

Flyway's add command creates an empty new migration file of the required type, ensuring use of the proper naming convention, assigning to it the correct version number, and placing it in the required location. This article explores how the command works and why it's especially useful when you want to add a new migration as part of an automated process. Read more

Installing and Upgrading the Flyway CLI

This article demonstrates four ways to install and maintain the Flyway CLI. First, running it from Docker. Then, installing it manually on Windows and Linux, with a PowerShell alias to make version switching easier. Third, using a package manager like Chocolatey. Finally, for Windows users, there's a script to automatically download and install the latest Flyway version and make a PowerShell alias that always points to the latest version, even across sessions. Read more

Tracking Down Object Changes in Flyway Migration Files

The goal of this article is to help Flyway developers search their migration files to pinpoint exactly where a specific database object, like a table, view, or procedure, was created or changed. It introduces a PowerShell script that scans files in version order and returns the relevant DDL statements with surrounding context. Read more

Automated State-based Deployments in Flyway

Learn how Flyway's state-based deployments help teams coordinate database changes and automate deployments, reducing risk, without disrupting existing development workflows. This article explains how they work, where they fit best, and when it makes sense to move to a migration-based approach. Read more

How to Detect Database Drift using Flyway Snapshots

Unexpected changes to a database, known as drift, can cause inconsistencies between environments and break deployments. Flyway Enterprise provides powerful techniques to catch these unexpected changes in your databases, giving teams confidence that the version of the database they test is the one they release and that the target environment is in the expected state before deployment. Read more

Simple Safeguards for PowerShell Scripting with Flyway

This article demonstrates simple techniques to security-check any processes that use Bash or PowerShell scripts to automate database tasks, when using Flyway. These checks help ensure a script is trusted, hasn't been tampered with since creation, and doesn't contain commands commonly used with malicious intent. They add a valuable layer of protection, without sacrificing the power and flexibility that makes Flyway so effective. Read more

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