Item: Liquibase
Rating: 7
Author: Kush Gumber

Overall Satisfaction with Liquibase

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For CI/DC (continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment) and automated code push whenever some code is merged in the concerned branches(staging, dev or the prod). It is set up by the devops team and upon successful generation of PR for the task, code review and merging it is helpful to automatically push code into whatever environment the code is merged into.

Pros and Cons

Pros

CI/CD or automated pushing
easy jumps between different pushes(rollback)
easy scripts for migration/database script runs

Cons

adding support for more code versioning platforms
making the database changes part more fluid and easy to use
Not much help regarding "how to do's" related to Liquibase on the internet

Return on Investment

Less time consumption in case of deployment
Automated data migrations and command runs
Less human help needed overall

Database Administration

IT made it quite easy, the various changes that were made in the database including new table additions and changes in the old tables were done via migrations and were easily downgraded and upgraded from one version to another, whenever there was a need to rollback or just switch to a different version just for the sake of testing in a dev or staging environment. Really helpful!

Support Rating

I never actually got the opportunity to contact the customer care apart from the pricing on the basis of the region and services that I required. Overall, the communication and the help that was provided by them, however small, was up to the mark and satisfactory. So, no complaints at all!

Alternatives Considered

Jenkins, GitLab and TeamCity

There are many things done differently and in a smoother way when it comes to Liquibase. The CI/CD setup flow is easier. Switching between the different versions on different environments is really easy. The UI of login portal is user friendly and easy to use. Overall, it has a slight upper hand on the UI and flow side

Key Insights

Do you think Liquibase delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Liquibase's feature set?

Yes

Did Liquibase live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Liquibase go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Liquibase again?

Yes

Other Software Used

WebStorm, Jira Software, Bitbucket, Microsoft Visual Studio

Likelihood to Recommend

Always helpful to use an automated tool to push changes into different environments. It helps the switching or jumping to different images easy and the jobs prior to committing the code, like migration/package install commands are all automatically done by the software itself. New ways to upscale and automate the software development and deployment.

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