Show HN: Podil.js, a lightweight and secure database schema migration tool
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Re: Show HN: Podil.js, a lightweight and secure database schema migration tool
#2Shouldn't the migration task be separate from the application running the web server?
If you had this within an application running in a Kubernetes pod, then each instance will attempt to run the migration.
Additionally, the application will need a DB user credentials that is capable of powerful actions like dropping a table, so that the migrator is capable of doing that - this would be a potential security vulnerability.
Re: Show HN: Podil.js, a lightweight and secure database schema migration tool
#3Shouldn't the migration task be separate from the application running the web server? If you had this within an application running in a Kubernetes pod, then each instance will attempt to run the migration. Additionally, the application will need a DB user credentials that is capable of powerful actions like dropping a table, so that the migrator is capable of doing that - this would be a potential security vulnerabi…
Thank you. Good points, I will think on that. For instance, flywaydb supports both ways but usually it is done directly from the application