Introducing gh-ost GitHub's triggerless, painless schema migrations for MySQL
Channel: FOSDEM
Date: 2018-03-12

by Daniël Van Eeden and Shlomi Noach

At: FOSDEM 2017

GitHub's `gh-ost` is a MySQL online schema migration tool changing theoperational paradigm. It is triggerless, controllable, auditable, andgenerates a low writeload on the master.

This session describes how `gh-ost` differs from existing online schemamigration tools, and the many perks made available by its design.

`gh-ost` runs all of GitHub's migrations. It is released as open source andsupported by GitHub at https://github.com/github/gh-ost


Room: H.1309 (Van Rijn)
Scheduled start: 2017-02-04 11:35:00