Is it okay to run

fleet prepare db

every time I run fleet? If the db already exists and is prepared, it shouldn't overwrite any existing data, right?

Correct. You’ll just have a log of “migrations already completed, nothing to do” with each startup

gotcha. so

prepare db

only does anything if the tables don't already exist?

It performs the migrations in this directory. They are executed in order. New versions of Fleet may introduce more migrations, they may not. https://github.com/kolide/fleet/tree/master/server/datastore/mysql/migrations

Interesting. I'm deploying fleet in kubernetes -- seems like I should be using

fleet prepare db

in my

command

section so that I ensure my DB stays updated as my version of fleet is updated.

You should 🙂

Sounds good. Thanks!!