Release

A release is a deployable unit that encapsulates a set of SQL statements.

You can think of a release as a collection of SQL statements layered on top of a scratch Docker image.

In your CI/CD pipeline, a Docker image is built from the source code and sent to the CD system for deployment. Similarly, your CI pipeline creates a release by invoking the Bytebase API. Once built, the release can be deployed to the database either via the Bytebase UI or through the Bytebase API.

Like a Docker image, a release is immutable after it is created.