Bytebase is a database DevSecOps platform designed for developers, security, DBA, and platform engineering teams. While it offers an intuitive GUI for managing database schema changes and access control, some teams may want to integrate Bytebase into their existing DevOps platforms using the Bytebase API. This tutorial will guide you through configuring SQL review rules using the Bytebase API. This approach allows you to manage SQL review rules as code within your repository, enabling DBAs or platform engineering teams to apply them to Bytebase as needed. The tutorial repository is at https://github.com/bytebase/example-api/tree/main/sql-review. This is one of the tutorial series of SQL Review:
  1. SQL Review with Bytebase GUI
  2. SQL Review with CI (integrated with Database GitOps workflow):
  3. SQL Review with Bytebase API
  4. Codify SQL Review Policies with Bytebase API (this one)

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Prerequisites

  1. Docker installed
  2. Node.js >= v18

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Start Bytebase

Make sure your Docker daemon is running. Copy and paste the commands to start Bytebase. 
docker run --rm --init \
  --name bytebase \
  --publish 8080:8080 --pull always \
  --volume ~/.bytebase/data:/var/opt/bytebase \
  bytebase/bytebase:3.8.1
Bytebase is now running via Docker, and you can access it via localhost:8080. Register the first admin account which will be granted Workspace Admin.

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Create Service Account

  1. Log in as Workspace Admin, and go to IAM & Admin > Users & Groups. Click + Add User, fill in with api-sample, choose the Workspace DBA role sufficient for this tutorial and click Confirm. service-account-create
  2. Find the newly created service account and Copy Service Key. We will use this token to authenticate the API calls. service-account-key

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Obtain the Access Token

  1. Go to Bytebase API Example repo and clone it.
  2. Navigate to the sql-review subfolder and follow the instructions in the README.md file of the example code repository to execute the scripts.
  3. Replace bytebase_url, bytebase_account, and bytebase_password in the commands below with your own values, then run them to obtain a bytebase_token in your terminal. 
    export bytebase_url=http://localhost:8080
export bytebase_account=api-sample@service.bytebase.com
export bytebase_password=bbs_************ilcLVG
bytebase_token=$(curl -v ${bytebase_url}/v1/auth/login \
   --data-raw '{"email":"'${bytebase_account}'","password":"'${bytebase_password}'","web":true}' \
   --compressed 2>&1 | grep token | grep -o 'access-token=[^;]*;' | grep -o '[^;]*' | sed 's/access-token=//g; s/;//g')
echo $bytebase_token

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Configure SQL Review Policies

  1. Continue following the README.md to run the scripts. 
    curl --request PATCH "${bytebase_url}/v1/reviewConfigs/basic?allow_missing=true&update_mask=rules" \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer '${bytebase_token} \
   --data @policy/basic.json

curl --request PATCH "${bytebase_url}/v1/reviewConfigs/advanced?allow_missing=true&update_mask=rules" \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer '${bytebase_token} \
   --data @policy/advanced.json
  2. In the Bytebase console, navigate to CI/CD > SQL Review to see the applied SQL review rules. You may click Edit to change the rules. sql-review-config

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Attach SQL Review Policies to Resources

We’ll apply these SQL review rules to environments or projects. Project-level rules take precedence over environment-level rules.
  1. Run these command in ‘README.md’ of the repo to apply the SQL review rules to environments. 
    curl --request PATCH "${bytebase_url}/v1/environments/test/policies/tag?allow_missing=true&update_mask=payload" \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer '${bytebase_token} \
   --data @binding/environments/test.json

curl --request PATCH "${bytebase_url}/v1/environments/prod/policies/tag?allow_missing=true&update_mask=payload" \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer '${bytebase_token} \
   --data @binding/environments/prod.json
  2. Continue with the README.md to apply the SQL review rules to projects. 
    curl --request PATCH "${bytebase_url}/v1/projects/project-sample/policies/tag?allow_missing=true&update_mask=payload" \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer '${bytebase_token} \
   --data @binding/projects/project-sample.json
  3. On the CI/CD > SQL Review page, you will see the SQL review rules are applied to environments and projects. sql-review-config-apply
  4. Go to Environments page, click Test environment to see the applied SQL review rules. sql-review-env
  5. Go to Sample Project page, click Setting on the left sidebar to see the applied the SQL review rules. bb-project-setting
  6. To detach SQL review policies from environments, use the following commands: 
    curl --request DELETE ${bytebase_url}/v1/environments/test/policies/tag \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer '${bytebase_token}

curl --request DELETE ${bytebase_url}/v1/environments/prod/policies/tag \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer '${bytebase_token}
    Similarly as to detach from projects: 
    curl --request DELETE ${bytebase_url}/v1/projects/project-sample/policies/tag \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer '${bytebase_token}
  7. To delete the SQL review rules, use the following commands: 
    curl --request DELETE ${bytebase_url}/v1/reviewConfigs/basic \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer '${bytebase_token}

curl --request DELETE ${bytebase_url}/v1/reviewConfigs/advanced \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer '${bytebase_token}

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Summary

Congratulations! You can now codify SQL review rules using the Bytebase API, in addition to the Bytebase GUI, making SQL review policy as code a reality.