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[Discussion] Devs and Devops: if you have running containers in production, how are you upgrading those containers? (lemdit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Gnubyte@lemdit.com to c/programming@programming.dev

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Hey all!

I'm seeking guidance. I have a lot of apps that use ORMs like Mongoose or Sequelize or Sqlalchemy, or even just init-db scripts with raw SQL. Point is a lot of apps have changes to the data layer. When we program and make apps they tend to describe how they need to see a database. Sometimes its no trivial feat to do an upgrade - and even if you have a CI/CD pipeline in place what does that look like to have something like even lemmy upgrade in a container.

If you have these apps in production how are you handling these apps? Both developer perspective and devops welcomed.

I see the devs offering insight into maybe how the backend recognizes database state, while the devops perhaps either describing process and implementation.

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[–] cerberus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Versioning is one way; if you have an API you can have different versions which will can change depending on version.

E.G. let’s say you have contact information coming through an API… the database can largely remain the same, but if you want to add a field or change a fields name, you could upgrade the version. When the app is ready to use the new version, switch the app over.

Rereading your question once more, I believe you can just resolve all your issues with a common API.