We're d-band — and this is drm-cli

[dband-drm]

Hi everyone,

We're d-band — a small team of data engineers and DevOps practitioners. We've been doing consulting work for years, helping organizations build and maintain data infrastructure, and we kept running into the same problem: database release management.

Not version control — that's largely solved. The part after: taking your versioned schema changes and actually getting them deployed, reliably, with a full audit trail, across all the databases you care about.

We looked for a tool that could sit on top of Liquibase, Flyway, and SSDT — track deployment history properly, handle credentials securely, and run a full release across multiple databases without stitching together custom scripts. We didn't find one that hit all those marks without a significant license cost or a full platform migration.

So we built one.

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What drm-cli does

drm-cli is a free, open-source database release manager that layers on top of your existing tools:

• Release history tracking — every deployment recorded and queryable
• Encrypted credentials — connection strings encrypted at rest, never in plaintext
• Automated retries and failure recovery — graceful handling of transient failures
• Multi-database releases — SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle in a single coordinated release
• Pre/post deployment scripts — steps that run before or after every deployment
• Cross-platform — Windows, Linux, macOS

Current version: v1.1.0 (released January 31, 2026)

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Why we're here

We're using GitHub Discussions to build in public. Over the next few weeks we'll be posting:

• Technical deep-dives into drm-cli's capabilities
• Honest write-ups of what we got wrong and had to rethink
• Full walkthroughs of v1.1 features (PostgreSQL, Oracle, Liquibase/Flyway integration)

If you're managing database deployments across multiple environments or tools, we'd love to hear how you're solving it today.

GitHub: dband-drm/drm-cli
Website: d-band.com

— Eli & the d-band team