[RDS] manage tables and databases in CDK

v1: specify a SQL file that describes the state of your databases etc, this would be similar to ruby on rails structure.sql file. Then you point CDK to the file, like fromAsset for ECS or lambda.

v2. manage the structure of your database directly in CDK, like DynamoDB tables are created in CDK

Use Case

The state of the RDBMS is part of the infrastructure as much as the size of the instance itself. It feels more natural to handle this in IaC than in your application code and run something like rake db:migrate on every deployment.

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[hoegertn]

While I totally agree with schema design and the use of Liquibase, I still think that databases and users might be a good fit for CDK because I would need these resources in the following constructs as env variables for Lambda, Fargate, etc.

[jonny-rimek]

Good point, I agree. How do you handle that right now, just update the information in two places?