goose
A Go database migration tool — manage schema changes as ordered SQL scripts or Go functions, run from the command line or embedded directly in a Go application as a library.
goose tracks schema changes as sequentially numbered “up”/“down” migration files, written either as plain SQL or as Go functions, and applies or rolls them back in order while recording progress in a version table. Migrations can be embedded into a Go binary with go:embed and run programmatically, which makes it a common choice for shipping schema changes alongside a Go application rather than as a separate deployment step.
Maintained by Pressly and released under the MIT License, it supports MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, ClickHouse, YDB, Vertica, and several other SQL databases through pluggable drivers.
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