Is it possible to store the alembic connect string outside of alembic.ini?

Question

I\'m using Alembic with SQL Alchemy. With SQL Alchemy, I tend to follow a pattern where I don\'t store the connect string with the versioned code. Instead I have file secr

Answer 1

Another solution is to create a template alembic.ini.dist file and to track it with your versionned code, while ignoring alembic.ini in your VCS.

Do not add any confidential information in alembic.ini.dist:

sqlalchemy.url = ...

When deploying your code to a platform, copy alembic.ini.dist to alembic.ini (this one won't be tracked by your VCS) and modify alembic.ini with the platform's credentials.