How to use migrations with Golang

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  1. migrate

    Database migrations. CLI and Golang library.

    Go doesn't support migrations natively for that propuso we can use the popular golang-migrate package also if you use an ORM like GORM you can use it for that.

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  3. docker

    FreeBSD port of docker, take a look at PORTING-FREEBSD.md in freebsd-compat branch (by kvasdopil)

    To follow this article you'll need: Go and Docker with Docker Compose

  4. example-go-migration

    Example of how to use golang-migate in a project

    The code for this tutorial can be found in the public: GitHub - albertcolom/example-go-migration

  5. GORM

    The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly

    Go doesn't support migrations natively for that propuso we can use the popular golang-migrate package also if you use an ORM like GORM you can use it for that.

  6. go

    The Go programming language

    To follow this article you'll need: Go and Docker with Docker Compose

  7. InfluxDB

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