Replibyte is a tool that automates the lifecycle of database snapshots for non-production environments, handling the export, anonymization, subsetting, and restoration of data. It is designed to support privacy-compliant development workflows by replacing sensitive production data with synthetic values and extracting consistent subsets of rows while preserving referential integrity.
The tool operates through a configurable pipeline defined in a YAML file, orchestrating stages such as dump, anonymize, subset, and restore. Each operation runs as an isolated, ephemeral container job, and snapshots are stored as encrypted files in remote object storage services like S3 or GCS. Replibyte also manages snapshot retention by automatically removing dumps based on age or count, and it can seed development databases with realistic, anonymized production data.
The project provides a command-line interface for configuring and triggering these operations, with support for running as a lifecycle job within deployment environments.
