Is the db schema migration safe while there's active user connections/requests or downtime would be needed?

[lvuna]

So far what I've been doing is to take down the service for 5 mins and apply the schema migration during a litellm version upgrade. Ideally I would want to avoid this downtime if possible, and it became a hassle too since I'm trying to deploy the service as a multi-regional deployment on different clusters.

Does anyone have a recommendation on how to deal with schema migration in production when there's several litellm deployments over different regional k8s clusters?

[lvuna]

is the db schema design following a expand and contract pattern?