Database DevOps is finally catching up to application delivery, thanks to automation, governance, and AI-powered assistance. At PASS Summit 2025, Harness will demonstrate how teams can streamline schema changes, enforce policies, and improve safety across every environment. It’s a practical look at transforming slow, manual DB processes into predictable, repeatable pipelines.
The PASS Data Community Summit returns to Seattle this November, bringing together database professionals, developers, architects, and data leaders from around the world. This year, Harness is proud to join as a Bronze Sponsor, showcasing how teams can finally bring the same speed, safety, and governance of CI/CD to their databases, now supporting Native Flyway.
From November 19–21, 2025, you’ll find us in the Seattle Convention Center at Booth #220, where we’ll be diving deep into the future of Database DevOps with AI-assisted database schema changes.
Why PASS Summit Matters for Database Professionals This Year
Modern applications move fast, but databases haven’t kept up. Manual reviews, brittle scripts, inconsistent change validation, and a lack of visibility into the environment continue to slow delivery and introduce risk.
PASS Summit is the annual gathering where the data community discusses openly these challenges and explores what’s next.
This year, AI-assisted database development, automated governance, Kubernetes-native databases, and data reliability are top-of-mind topics. Harness will be right in the middle of those conversations.
See Our Sessions at PASS
Harness will present two talks this year, each focused on accelerating database delivery while protecting data integrity and ensuring compliance.
📍 Session #1 — Database DevOps: CD for Stateful Applications
🗓 November 19, 2025
⏰ 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
📍 Room 337–339
🔗 https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/sessions/1347
Running stateful applications on Kubernetes can be just as safe, predictable, and repeatable as stateless workloads when the right approach is used.
In this session, Stephen Atwell (Harness) and Chris Crow (Pure Storage) will explore how to:
- Treat stateful applications and their data as first-class citizens in your CD pipeline
- Version and deploy databases safely and repeatedly
- Manage persistent data and database structural changes within Kubernetes
- Automate schema migrations across environments
- Understand performance impacts of specific migrations
- Use governance and policy controls to empower developers without compromising safety
This talk includes real-world schema migration examples, performance analysis, and a live demo showing how CD tooling automates data migrations inside Kubernetes.
If you’re working with Kubernetes and databases, this session is a must-see.
📍 Session #2 — Faster DB Schema Migrations with AI-Enabled CI/CD & Automated Governance
🗓 November 21, 2025
⏰ 12:15 PM–12:45 PM
📍 Room 442
🔗 https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/sessions/1710
AI is changing how organizations approach database development, and in this session, we explore what’s now possible.
Join Stephen Atwell, Principal Product Manager for Harness Database DevOps, to learn how AI + CI/CD can accelerate data delivery while maintaining safety and compliance.
You’ll walk away understanding:
- How LLMs can author schema migrations
- How CI/CD validates AI-generated SQL before it reaches production
- How OPA (Open Policy Agent) fully automates database governance
- How DBAs can encode expertise once while enabling self-service across teams
- High-level differences between modern migration tooling
- How faster, automated DB changes translate into faster business outcomes
This session is ideal for DBAs, data engineers, DevOps teams, and anyone looking to modernize their database change process.
What Harness Is Showcasing at PASS Summit 2025
At Booth #220, we’ll be presenting the latest evolution of Harness Database DevOps, designed to solve one core challenge:
“How do we release database changes with the same confidence and velocity as application code?”
See live demos of:
✔ AI-Authored Database Migrations
- Generate compliant, review-ready SQL from simple natural-language descriptions.
✔ Migration Tracking Across Environments
- Complete visibility into what's deployed where, and what’s at risk.
✔ Automated Rollback Intelligence
- Safer releases using reversible changes and pre-deployment validation.
✔ Policy-Driven Governance
- Blocks risky changes automatically. Enables developers to work safely.
✔ Unified Dev + DBA Workflows
- A shared pipeline for collaboration, approvals, and risk reduction.
Meet the Harness Team at Booth #220
Our product managers, database experts, and DevOps engineers will be available for hands-on demos and in-depth discussions on your current challenges.
Stop by to:
- See AI-authored schema changes in action
- Learn how teams automate DB governance at scale
- Review migration performance impacts
- Get a personalized assessment of your DB delivery workflow
- Grab some swag and meet the team
See You in Seattle!
We’re thrilled to sponsor the PASS Data Community Summit 2025 and look forward to connecting with the community.
See you at Booth #220 in Seattle!
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Matt Schillerstrom is a Product Marketing Manager at Harness, specializing in Feature Management, Chaos Engineering, Database DevOps, and AI-native DevOps. With over two decades of experience in DevOps and reliability practices, Matt helps DevOps engineering and SRE teams adopt modern delivery workflows built on governance, automation, and resilience. His work bridges technical depth and business impact to drive software reliability at scale.