Install the Hackolade Studio CLI on a server, and trigger it to run concurrent multi-threaded sessions in a Docker container, as part of that environment. As part of your CI/CD pipeline, you can trigger data modeling automations and have it perform things like creation of artifacts, forward- and reverse-engineering, model comparisons, documentation generation, ...

1. Hackolade Tutorial
Docker-based data modeling automation
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2. Design
Data Model
Generate
Schema
Catalog
Publish
Use
Evaluate
Data
Modeler
Data
Architect
Subject
Matter
Expert
Data
Engineer
Data
Analyst
Business
Analyst
Data models lifecycle unified with DevOps applications
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Application
Metadata Dev Ops

3. Role of Data Modeling in an Agile/DevOps context
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Domain-Driven
Design
Physical Data
Modeling
Iterative
Evolution
Fake data
Generation
Optimization
Governance
& Compliance
Maintenance &
Performance,
Documentation
& Facilitation

4. We call this
Metadata-as-Code
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5. Data models
Schema contracts
Application code
Git repository DevOps CI/CD
pipeline
Application
Database
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Using GIT to Co-locate metadata with application code
Environments:
• Dev
• Test
• Integration
• Production
ALTER scripts

6. … …
Consumers
Subject area models
Project models
Models
Local
Repo
Local
Repo
Local
Repo
Clone
Push
Pull
Merge …
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Hackolade Studio to Schema Repo workflow
CLI
Schemas
DDL files
OAS files
JSON Schema files
Avro Schema files
…

7. Why Docker-based automation?
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8. Governance first use case
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9. Code-first use case
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10. Principle: Event triggers Actions
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11. Run concurrent multi-threaded CLI commands in Docker containers
• Resources:
• Documentation: https://github.com/hackolade/docker/tree/main/Studio
• Script for this tutorial:
https://github.com/hackolade/docker/blob/main/Studio/tutorial/Docker%2B
CLI-tutorial.md
• GitHub Actions procedure: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-
actions/creating-a-docker-container-action
• Using provided Dockerfile.app in the repo
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12. Example scenarios
1. Reverse-engineer database instance overnight
2. Compare reverse-engineered model with baseline model, and
generate delta model
3. Generate documentation in html+pdf format for reverse-
engineered data model
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13. Reading material
• See Hackolade online documentation
• The Hackolade Blog
• Hackolade’s on social media: LinkedIn page, Twitter page
• Download Hackolade Studio for free
• This excellent new book:
MongoDB Data Modeling & Schema Design
• Many of the principles in the book are related to query
driven modeling based on access patterns
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14. Order on Amazon
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Pre-order

15. Upcoming
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16. Questions?
Answers!
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