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Application releases frequently depend on database schema changes such as new tables, columns, indexes, constraints, and reference data, but managing these changes separately from application deployments can create coordination delays, compatibility failures, limited visibility, and difficult rollbacks. The article argues that Harness Continuous Delivery and Harness Database DevOps address these issues by incorporating version-controlled database migrations into a unified CI/CD pipeline, where schema changes are applied before a Kubernetes application deployment and followed by health verification. If failures occur, automated rollback procedures can restore the prior application version, while centralized pipeline controls improve migration traceability, governance, compliance, and promotion across development, staging, and production environments. By bringing developers, database teams, and platform engineers into one automated release workflow, the approach aims to accelerate delivery while reducing operational risk and improving release consistency.

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