For schema&#x2F;index changes I prefer migrations.  These should be committed along side the code, tested, and promoted through environments.  This largely prevents dependency issues because the migrations are ordered.<p>Devops is like 80% dependency management.  It&#x27;s painful initially but you have to crack down on manual changes to production - all production changes should be defined in code, committed to git, tested, and flow through non-prod environments first.   (just had an outage yesterday that was essentially because I failed to do this)