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Announcing Atlas v1.0: A Milestone in Database Schema Management

· 8 min read
Ariel Mashraki
Building Atlas

We're excited to announce Atlas v1.0 - just in time for the holidays! 🎄

v1.0 is a milestone release. Atlas has been production-ready for a few years now, running at some of the top companies in the industry, and reaching 1.0 is our commitment to long-term stability and compatibility. It reflects what Atlas has become: a schema management product built for real production use that both platform engineers and developers love.

Here's what's in this release:

  • Monitoring as Code - Configure Atlas monitoring with HCL, including RDS discovery and cross-account support.
  • Schema Statistics - Size breakdowns, largest tables/indexes, fastest-growing objects, and growth trends over time.
  • Declarative Migrations UI - A new dashboard for databases, migrations, deployments, and status visibility.
  • Database Drivers - Databricks, Snowflake, and Oracle graduate from beta to stable; plus improvements across Postgres, MySQL, Spanner, Redshift, and ClickHouse.
  • Deployment Rollout Strategies - Staged rollouts (canaries, parallelism, and error handling) for multi-tenant and fleet deployments.
  • Deployment Traces - End-to-end traceability for how changes move through environments.
  • Multi-Config Files - Layer config files with -c file://base.hcl,file://app.hcl.

Atlas v0.34: Ad-hoc Approval Policies and Terraform Docs

· 3 min read
Rotem Tamir
Building Atlas

Hey everyone!

It's been just over two weeks since our last release, and we are back with another batch of exciting features and improvements. Here's what's in store for you in Atlas v0.34.

Atlas v0.33: Introducing Atlas Copilot and more

· 10 min read
Rotem Tamir
Building Atlas

Hey everyone!

It's been a couple of months since our last release, but for good reason. Today, I am super excited to tell you about everything we have been up to. Here's what's in store for you in this release, v0.33:

  • Atlas Copilot: A new coding assistant that helps you better manage your Atlas projects by leveraging an agentic, LLM-based approach.
  • Support for --include: Atlas Pro users may now use the --include flag to specify which database objects to query during inspection.
  • migrate/diff in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and CircleCI - Atlas now supports the migrate diff command in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and CircleCI. This allows teams to build CI/CD pipelines that automatically generate migration files based on the current state of the database and the desired state of the schema.
  • Check-level Lint Policies: Atlas comes pre-packaged with many built in analyzers that can be used to verify the safety of changes to your database. Using Check-level Lint Policies, you can now configure your CI/CD's pipelines sensitivity to these analyzers.
  • Support for sensitive annotations in migration files: Migration files can sometimes include sensitive or PII values, either passed in as input variables (using template-directories) or embedded directly in SQL statements. To prevent these values from being logged, Atlas provides a directive for marking files or specific statements as sensitive. This directive can be set at either the file or statement level.
  • Atlas Dashboard UI Revamp: We recently revamped the Atlas dashboard UI. The new design is cleaner and more modern, making it easier to navigate and find the information you need. Congrats to the team for their hard work on this!
  • Beta / Feedback Programs: We are launching beta/feedback programs for (signup link below):
    • Oracle
    • Google Spanner
    • Snowflake
    • Performance Optimization

Atlas v0.32: Ask AI, SQL Imports, and More

· 11 min read
Rotem Tamir
Building Atlas

Hey everyone!

It's been a few weeks since our last release, and we're excited to share today everything that's new in Atlas v0.32. This release is packed with new features, improvements and bug fixes that will make your experience with Atlas even better.

Here are the highlights of this release:

  • Ask AI - Since its modest beginning, Atlas has come a long way. What started as a simple CLI tool for declarative schema management is now a full-blown platform. We know that the learning curve for new users can be steep, which is why we are introducing new AI-powered features to help you get started with Atlas.
  • SQL Importing - As projects grow, teams often want to split their schema definition across multiple files. Because SQL definitions are imperative and rely on the order of statements, splitting them can be challenging. With the new importing feature its easy to break large SQL schema definitions into smaller parts while keeping them correct and ordered.
  • Improved Ent Loader - Users of the popular Ent ORM can use the ent:// URL scheme to load their schema into Atlas. We have added support for multi-schema migrations, composite schemas, and Ent's globalid feature.
  • SQL Server Improvements - We have made several improvements to the SQL Server support in Atlas, including support for Full Text Search Index and Temporal Tables.
  • PostgreSQL Improvements - We have added support for defining Foreign Servers and Unlogged Tables in PostgreSQL.

What is Schema Monitoring and Atlas v0.27

· 4 min read
Rotem Tamir
Building Atlas

Hi Everyone,

It's been a few weeks since our last release, and I'm very excited to share with you the news of Atlas v0.27. In this release, you will find:

  • Atlas Schema Monitoring: A new product that provides a set of tools and features to help you manage and monitor your database schema effectively.
  • Pay via AWS Marketplace: Atlas users can now pay for their Atlas subscription via the AWS Marketplace.
  • Atlas HCL Doc Portal: A new portal that contains always up to date, automatically generated documentation for the Atlas HCL language.

Introducing Schema Monitoring

Screenshot of the Atlas Schema Monitoring dashboard, showing a live ERD, schema changelog, and recent alerts.

The hallmark of this release is a new product we call Atlas Schema Monitoring. Atlas Schema Monitoring provides a set of tools and features to help you manage and monitor your database schema effectively. Teams install an agent (container) on their database VPC which tracks changes to the database schema and reports metadata to the Atlas Cloud control plane. Using this metadata Atlas Schema Monitoring provides:

  1. Live visibility of your database schema with automated ER diagrams and auto-generated documentation.
  2. A Changelog of schema changes, so you can see how schemas change over time, and easily triage schema change related issues.
  3. Alerts Use Webhooks or Slack notifications to inform or alert teams that need to know about schema changes or drift.

Starting today, we are providng one free monitored instance to all signed up Atlas users.

A Live Demo is available for you to try out.

What's missing in EF Core Migrations? Announcing Atlas v0.26

· 6 min read
Rotem Tamir
Building Atlas

Hi everyone,

It's been about a month since our last release, and we're excited to announce that Atlas v0.26 is now available! In this release we are happy to introduce a new feature that has been requested by many of you: support for Entity Framework Core. As part of our ever going effort to improve the quality and coverage of our documentation, we have published a set of guides on testing database schemas and migrations as well as a new GORM Portal.

Additionally, we have published an official "Supported Version Policy" and made some changes to our EULA, described below.

Announcing v0.24: Testing Schemas, Migrations, and Enhanced Editor Support

· 13 min read
Rotem Tamir
Building Atlas

Hi everyone,

We are back again with a new release of Atlas, v0.24. In this release we double down on the core principle that has been guiding us from the start: enabling developers to manage their database schema as code. The features we announce today may appear like a yet another cool addition to Atlas, but I am fairly confident, that in a few years' time, they will be recognized as something foundational.

In this release we introduce:

  • schema test - a new command (and framework) for testing your database schema using familiar software testing paradigms.
  • migrate test - a new command for testing writing tests for you schema migrations.
  • Enhanced editor support - we have added support for some long awaited features in our VSCode and JetBrains plugins: multi-file schemas, jump to definition, and support for much larger schemas.

Announcing v0.23: Redshift Support, CircleCI Integration and More

· 9 min read
Rotem Tamir
Building Atlas

Hi everyone,

It's been a few weeks since the release of v0.22, and we're excited to be back with the next version of Atlas, packed with some long awaited features and improvements.

  • Redshift Support - Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Starting today, you can use Atlas to manage your Redshift Schema-as-Code.
  • CircleCI Integration - Following some recent requests from our Enterprise customers, we have added a CircleCI orb to make it easier to integrate Atlas into your CircleCI pipelines.
  • Kubernetes Operator Down Migrations - The Kubernetes Operator now detects when you are moving to a previous version and will attempt to apply a down migration if configured to do so.
  • GORM View Support - We have added support for defining SQL Views in your GORM models.
  • SQLAlchemy Provider Improvements - We have added support for defining models using SQLAlchemy Core Tables in the SQLAlchemy provider.
  • ERD v2 - We have added a new navigation sidebar to the ERD to make it easier to navigate within large schemas.
  • PostgreSQL Improvements - We have added support for PostgreSQL Event Triggers, Aggregate Functions, and Function Security.

Let's dive in!

Announcing v0.22: Rename Detection, Table Locking Checks, and more

· 7 min read

Hi everyone,

It's been a few weeks since our last release, and we're happy to be back with a version packed with brand new and exciting features. Here's what's inside:

  • RENAME Detection - This version includes a RENAME detector that identifies ambiguous situations of potential resource renames and interactively asks the user for feedback before generating the changes.
  • PostgreSQL Features
    • UNIQUE and EXCLUDE - Unique constraints and exclusion constraints were added.
    • Composite Types - Added support for composite types, which are user-defined types that represent the structure of a row.
    • Table lock checks - Eight new checks that review migration plans and alert in cases of a potential table locks in different modes.
  • SQL Server Sequence Support - Atlas now supports managing sequences in SQL Server.

Let's dive in!