Set up Liquibase to handle database changes

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Note

Liquibase is an open-source database schema change management tool that allows you to track, version, and deploy database changes in a structured and repeatable way.

• Use Liquibase to version control database changes
  • Read the doc
  • Add the Liquibase Maven dependency to pom.xml

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.liquibase</groupId>
      <artifactId>liquibase-core</artifactId>
    </dependency>

  • Configure Liquibase in application.yaml to validate the database schema every time the application starts

    spring:
      liquibase:
        enabled: true
        change-log: classpath:db/changelog/db.changelog-master.yaml
      jpa:
        hibernate:
          ddl-auto: validate

    The ddl-auto: validate setting asks Spring Boot to verify that the database structure is in sync with entities every time it starts.
  • Create the master changelog file:
    src/main/resources/db/changelog/db.changelog-master.yaml