Flyway in Spring Boot: Step-by-Step tutorial with Maven (Beginner Friendly)
Learn how to use Flyway in Spring Boot with Maven for smooth and reliable database migrations. In this hands-on tutorial, we cover everything from setting up PostgreSQL in Docker, configuring Flyway in your application, writing versioned and repeatable migrations, to using Flyway in CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions. Whether you’re new to Flyway or want to master schema version control in Spring Boot, this video will guide you step by step.
00:00 – Intro: What is Flyway and why use it?
00:36 – Project setup: Spring Boot, Maven, PostgreSQL in Docker
01:21 – Flyway configuration in application.properties
02:01 – Versioned migrations (V1, V2) with SQL examples
04:41 – Repeatable migrations (R) explained
06:15 – Baseline migrations (B) for existing databases
08:17 – Undo migrations (U) and forward-fix strategy
09:43 – Preconditions and placeholders in Flyway
11:56 – Using Flyway from CLI with Maven plugin
12:22 – Flyway commands: info, migrate, validate, repair, clean
13:28 – CI/CD integration with GitHub Actions
17:05 – Conclusion & best practices
Code on GitHub: https://github.com/code-with-bellsoft...