transmutator¶
Transmutator is a general purpose migration framework. It focuses on automating actions to upgrade (or downgrade) a product.
- General purpose
- Perhaps you heard about tools such as Django migrations. They are migrations restricted to the scope of Django models and related database. Transmutator is not limited to a language, framework or database scope: it runs executables, whatever the language, for the purpose you want.
- Migration
- Given a product in a given state (call it state 1.0), a “migration” brings the product to another state (call it state 2.0). In the semantic field of workflows, we would have called it a “transition”. In the semantic field of end-user software, we would have called it an “upgrade” or “downgrade”.
- Framework
- transmutator‘s primary purpose is to run migrations. But it also provides a basic toolkit to ease the development of migration scripts.
Development status¶
Today, transmutator is experimental. First goal is to have a simple tool that runs migration scripts in a predictable, repeatable and easy way. Let’s focus on a basic but consistent set of features.
Later, transmutator (or related projects) may deal with queues, interactions, workflows, parallelization, monitoring, web UI...
Help is welcome to implement a nice tool today, and to make it better tomorrow!
Ressources¶
- Documentation: https://transmutator.readthedocs.org
- PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/transmutator
- Code repository: https://github.com/benoitbryon/transmutator
- Bugtracker: https://github.com/benoitbryon/transmutator/issues
- Roadmap: https://waffle.io/benoitbryon/transmutator
- Continuous integration: https://travis-ci.org/benoitbryon/transmutator