---
title: Guides
id: guides
slug: /guides
---

import { Card, CardImage } from "../components/card";

# Atlas Guides

## Deployments

<div className="row">
  <Card
    name="Introduction"
    description="Intro to deploying schema migrations"
    url="/guides/deploying/intro"
    image={CardImage.Deployment}
  />
  <Card
    name="Docker images"
    description="Creating container images for deploying migrations"
    url="/guides/deploying/image"
    image={CardImage.Docker}
  />
  <Card
    name="AWS ECS"
    description="Deploying to AWS ECS (Fargate)"
    url="/guides/deploying/aws-ecs-fargate"
    image={CardImage.ECS}
  />
  <Card
    name="Kubernetes with Helm"
    description="Deploying schema migrations to Kubernetes with Helm"
    url="/guides/deploying/helm"
    image={CardImage.Helm}
  />
  <Card
    name="Kubernetes with Init Containers"
    description="Deploying schema migrations to Kubernetes with Init Containers"
    url="/guides/deploying/k8s-init-container"
    image={CardImage.Kubernetes}
  />
  <Card
    name="Kubernetes with ArgoCD"
    description="Use the Atlas Kubernetes Operator and Argo CD"
    url="/guides/deploying/k8s-argo"
    image={CardImage.Deployment}
  />
  <Card
    name="Kubernetes with Flux CD"
    description="Use the Atlas Kubernetes Operator and Flux CD"
    url="/guides/deploying/k8s-flux"
    image={CardImage.Deployment}
  />
  <Card
    name="CloudSQL with GitHub Actions"
    description="Deploying to CloudSQL with GitHub Actions"
    url="/guides/deploying/cloud-sql-via-github-actions"
    image={CardImage.Deployment}
  />
  <Card
    name="Deploying to Fly.io"
    description="Using Atlas with Fly.io"
    url="/guides/deploying/fly-io"
    image={CardImage.Deployment}
  />
</div>

## MySQL

<div className="row">
  <Card
    name="Descending Indexes"
    description="This guide is for working with descending indexes in MySQL with Atlas"
    url="/guides/mysql/descending-indexes"
    image={CardImage.MySQL}
  />
  <Card
    name="Functional Indexes"
    description="This guide is for working with functional indexes in MySQL with Atlas"
    url="/guides/mysql/functional-indexes"
    image={CardImage.MySQL}
  />
  <Card
    name="Prefix Indexes"
    description="This guide is for working with prefix indexes in MySQL with Atlas"
    url="/guides/mysql/prefix-indexes"
    image={CardImage.MySQL}
  />
  <Card
    name="CHECK Constraint"
    description="This guide is for working with CHECK constraints in MySQL with Atlas"
    url="/guides/mysql/check-constraint"
    image={CardImage.MySQL}
  />
  <Card
    name="Generated Columns"
    description="This guide is for working with generated columns in MySQL with Atlas"
    url="/guides/mysql/generated-columns"
    image={CardImage.MySQL}
  />
  <Card
    name="MySQL RDS with Terraform"
    description="Managing MySQL schemas on RDS with Terraform"
    url="/guides/mysql/terraform"
    image={CardImage.Terraform}
  />
  <Card
    name="Inline REFERENCES clauses (MY102)"
    description="This guide describes in detail the detection of inline REFERENCES clauses for MySQL"
    url="/guides/mysql/checks/MY102"
    image={CardImage.MySQL}
  />
  <Card
    name="Dropping non-virtual columns (DS103)"
    description="This guide describes in detail the detection of dropping non-virtual columns for MySQL databases with Atlas's linting capabilities"
    url="/guides/mysql/checks/DS103"
    image={CardImage.MySQL}
  />
  <Card
    name="Detecting drops of foreign key constraints"
    description="This guide describes in detail the detection of dropping foreign keys in MySQL databases, using Atlas's linting capabilities"
    url="/guides/mysql/checks/CD101"
    image={CardImage.MySQL}
  />
</div>

## PostgreSQL

<div className="row">
  <Card
    name="Serial Type Columns"
    description="This guide is for understanding serial type columns in PostgreSQL with Atlas"
    url="/guides/postgres/serial-columns"
    image={CardImage.Postgres}
  />
  <Card
    name="Partial Indexes"
    description="This guide is for implementing partial indexes in PostgreSQL with Atlas"
    url="/guides/postgres/partial-indexes"
    image={CardImage.Postgres}
  />
  <Card
    name="Included Columns"
    description="This guide is for working with covering indexes in PostgreSQL"
    url="/guides/postgres/included-columns"
    image={CardImage.Postgres}
  />
  <Card
    name="Index Operator Classes"
    description="This guide is for understanding index operator classes in PostgreSQL"
    url="/guides/postgres/index-operator-classes"
    image={CardImage.Postgres}
  />
  <Card
    name="Optimal data alignment (AR101)"
    description="This guide is for achieving optimal data alignment in PostgreSQL with Atlas"
    url="/guides/postgres/ar-101"
    image={CardImage.Postgres}
  />
  <Card
    name="Descending Indexes"
    description="This guide is for implementing descending indexes in PostgreSQL with Atlas"
    url="/guides/postgres/descending-indexes"
    image={CardImage.Postgres}
  />
  <Card
    name="Functional Indexes"
    description="This guide is for creating functional indexes in PostgreSQL with Atlas"
    url="/guides/postgres/functional-indexes"
    image={CardImage.Postgres}
  />
</div>

## SQLite

<div className="row">
  <Card
    name="Partial Indexes"
    description="This guide is for implementing partial indexes in SQLite with Atlas"
    url="/guides/sqlite/partial-indexes"
    image={CardImage.SQLite}
  />
  <Card
    name="Descending Indexes"
    description="This guide is for creating descending indexes in SQLite with Atlas"
    url="/guides/sqlite/descending-indexes"
    image={CardImage.SQLite}
  />
  <Card
    name="Functional Indexes"
    description="This guide is for creating functional indexes in SQLite with Atlas"
    url="/guides/sqlite/functional-indexes"
    image={CardImage.SQLite}
  />
  <Card
    name="Working with Turso"
    description="This guide is for working with Turso in SQLite with Atlas"
    url="/guides/sqlite/turso"
    image={CardImage.Integration}
  />
</div>

## Migration Directories

<div className="row">
  <Card
    name="Working with template directories"
    description="This guide explains how to interpolate data variables in migration files"
    url="/guides/migration-dirs/template-directory"
    image={CardImage.Migrate}
  />
</div>

## Migration Tools

<div className="row">
  <Card
    name="Automatic migration planning for golang-migrate"
    description="This guide is for automatic migration planning for golang-migrate with Atlas"
    url="/guides/migration-tools/golang-migrate"
    image={CardImage.Tools}
  />
  <Card
    name="Importing from pressly/goose"
    description="This guide is for importing a pressly/goose project to Atlas"
    url="/guides/migration-tools/goose-import"
    image={CardImage.Tools}
  />
</div>

## ORMs

<div className="row">
  <Card
    name="GORM"
    description="This guide is for automatic migration planning for GORM with Atlas"
    url="/guides/orms/gorm"
    image={CardImage.Tools}
  />
  <Card
    name="Beego"
    description="This guide is for automatic migration planning for Beego with Atlas"
    url="/guides/orms/beego"
    image={CardImage.Tools}
  />
  <Card
    name="Sequelize"
    description="This guide is for automatic migration planning for Sequelize with Atlas"
    url="/guides/orms/sequelize"
    image={CardImage.Tools}
   />
   <Card
    name={"TypeORM"}
    description={"This guide is for automatic migration planning for TypeORM with Atlas"}
    url={"/guides/orms/typeorm"}
    image={CardImage.Tools}
  />
</div>

## Terraform

<div className="row">
  <Card
    name="Provisioning schemas (named databases)"
    description="This guide is for provisioning schemas (named databases) with Terraform using Atlas"
    url="/guides/terraform/named-databases"
    image={CardImage.Terraform}
  />
</div>

## Cloud

<div className="row">
  <Card
    name="Inspecting a local database in the Cloud"
    description="This guide is for inspecting a local database in the Cloud with Atlas"
    url="/guides/cloud/explore-inspection"
    image={CardImage.Cloud}
  />
</div>

## Tests

<div className="row">
  <Card
    name="Integration tests with docker-compose"
    description="This guide is for running integration tests with docker-compose using Atlas"
    url="/guides/testing/docker-compose"
    image={CardImage.Testing}
  />
  <Card
    name="Integration tests with GitHub Actions"
    description="This guide is for running integration tests with GitHub Actions using Atlas"
    url="/guides/testing/github-actions"
    image={CardImage.Testing}
  />
</div>
