Going through the readme and the homepage still left me asking "What exactly does it do?". Going through the readme, their home page, and this blog post (https://blog.ariga.io/meet-atlas-cli/), here's a tldr;
It's terraform, but for database.
- It allows defining SQL database schema in HCL (terraform's DSL) for now.
- It can inspect a database and create the HCL for it.
- It can do database migrations similar to terraform. You define the new schema in HCL, and it allegedly takes care of producing the SQL needed to perform the migration. It also has a "plan" step like Terraform.
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I hope I didn't missunderstand or missed something.
It's terraform, but for database.
- It allows defining SQL database schema in HCL (terraform's DSL) for now.
- It can inspect a database and create the HCL for it.
- It can do database migrations similar to terraform. You define the new schema in HCL, and it allegedly takes care of producing the SQL needed to perform the migration. It also has a "plan" step like Terraform.
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I hope I didn't missunderstand or missed something.