Top 23 Go Migration Projects

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1. migrate

   1 91 18,890 5.6 Go

   Database migrations. CLI and Golang library.

   

   Project mention: Full-stack auth in Go and React: email + password with Limen | dev.to | 2026-07-07

   The CLI generates migration files; applying them is up to your usual tool. With golang-migrate:

2. Kargo

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3. goose

   2 35 11,416 7.8 Go

   A database migration tool. Supports SQL migrations and Go functions. (by pressly)

   

   Project mention: Handle frequent Database Migrations in Agentic Workflows | dev.to | 2026-09-04

   Goose to create, track, and apply migrations.

4. dbmate

   3 30 7,334 8.5 Go

   🚀 A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool.

   

   Project mention: Letting go PHP database migrations | dev.to | 2025-10-09

   I dropped my requirements in an AI chat and it produces a list where I saw a few good candidates; Flyway, Liquibase and dbmate.

5. pv-migrate

   4 10 2,401 9.2 Go

   CLI tool to easily migrate or backup/restore Kubernetes persistent volumes

   

6. gocqlx

   5 1 1,028 7.3 Go

   All-In-One: CQL query builder, ORM and migration tool

   

7. pgcapture

   6 3 285 4.7 Go

   A scalable Netflix DBLog implementation for PostgreSQL

   

8. EverOrg

   7 3 154 0.0 Go

   Evernote to Org mode migration tool

   

9. AppSignal

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   AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.

   

10. darwin

    8 1 150 0.0 Go

    Database schema evolution library for Go

    

11. sqlize

    9 1 126 3.7 Go

    powerful SQL toolkit; offering parsing, building, and migration capabilities.

    

12. kubeseal-convert

    10 1 74 6.1 Go

    A tool for importing secrets from a pre-existing secrets management systems (e.g. Vault, Secrets Manager) into a SealedSecret :shushing_face:

    

13. crane

    11 1 56 9.4 Go

    Tool for migrating Kubernetes workloads, and their data, between clusters. (by migtools)

    

14. redis-migration

    12 1 45 0.0 Go

    A tool to migrate redis database keys from one setup to another

    

15. sqle

    13 0 27 3.8 Go

    A SQL-first/ORM-like Golang SQL package.

    

16. migrator

    14 4 25 8.8 Go

    Super fast and lightweight DB migration & evolution tool written in Go (by lukaszbudnik)

    

17. entangle

    15 3 23 8.9 Go

    Hand a live Claude Code, Codex, or opencode session to anyone with three spoken words, encrypted and with no account. Also moves a whole Claude Code history to a new laptop, rewriting every stored path so the sessions actually open. (by gowtham-sai-yadav)

    

    Project mention: Why you cannot copy a Claude Code session to another machine | dev.to | 2026-08-06

    I got tired of doing the manual version and wrote entangle, a single Go binary that handles the rewriting and moves sessions between machines. Handing one to a teammate goes over magic-wormhole, so what you exchange is three words rather than a file:

18. crossbreeder

    16 2 15 8.0 Go

    Bulk firmware changing and basic action tool for standalone Ruckus Access Points

    

19. godfish

    17 0 14 8.3 Go

    a db migration management CLI and library

    

20. go-pg-migrate

    18 0 11 2.9 Go

    CLI-friendly package for pg migrations management.

    

21. ratchet

    19 1 7 2.6 Go

    A schema migration tool for Cloud Spanner. (by kanjih)

    

22. pg-shifter

    20 0 5 0.0 Go

    Golang struct to postgres table shifter.

    

23. HostShift

    21 2 2 8.9 Go

    Ubuntu and Debian server migrations with a Go CLI, Codex integration, and real migration matrix testing.

    

    Project mention: A practical checklist for migrating an Ubuntu or Debian VPS | dev.to | 2026-07-12

    I eventually turned this workflow into HostShift, an Apache-2.0 Go CLI for discovering, planning, migrating, and verifying Ubuntu and Debian web servers.

24. norm

    22 3 1 - Go

    Lightweight PostgreSQL SQL query helper for Go structs. Not an ORM. Works with pgx and database/sql. (by juggle73)

    

    Project mention: Less boilerplate than raw SQL, less magic than ORM: generating PostgreSQL queries from Go structs | dev.to | 2026-06-04

25. detect-running-alg-socket

    23 1 0 - Go

    Detects if any running pid uses AF_ALG, to help with https://copy.fail mitigations (seeing if its safe to turn off the AF_ALG module)

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Detecting running processes using AF_ALG | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-01

26. SaaSHub

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