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Discussion on: What's the best way to manage migrations in a microservice architechure?

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Adekoyejo Akinhanmi

Specifically, I'm using knexjs for migrations and I was unable to run migrations for files that were not present in the current service migration directory. What I mean is, KnexJS would look through its migrations folder and attempt to correlate previous migrations in the migrations table with the files present. If it doesn't find them, it throws an error. So I decided to move all the migrations to a separate service and do version control there.

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Sam Ferree

Ah, I'm used to EntityFramework which stores it' "Last Migration" information in a table on the database, so I'm sure if that would be an issue.

Seems like a good enough reason to keep your migrations in their own repo to me.

There is also probably an argument that could be made for a monorepo for all your microservices.