Manifold Acquisition and what it means for Existing Users

Manifold, one of the platforms that provides the JawsDB service, has been acquired. Please see their announcement below. Manifold customers will need to take action to keep their databases running and this process will be explained at the end of this announcement.

We are excited to announce that Manifold has been acquired by Snyk. Snyk’s cloud native application security platform empowers developers to build security seamlessly into their development process - across code, open source, containers and infrastructure as code. If you are a developer looking to solve security issues earlier in a dev-friendly way, we would encourage you to give Snyk a try.

The Manifold team will be helping accelerate the extensibility of Snyk’s platform, making it easier to build upon and automate existing developer workflows.

Unfortunately, this means that we are shutting down the Manifold Marketplace.

To give you plenty of time to migrate any active resources you manage with Manifold, we will keep the marketplace running until April 26, 2021. At that time, all Manifold-managed accounts, resources, and custom configurations will cease to function.

In order to keep Manifold users' databases running, we can move their existing database to our other provider (Heroku) without any downtime. Such users must please perform the following steps.

If the user is already a Heroku customer, please begin at step 2.

If the user already has an application on Heroku where they wish to place the database server, please skip to step 3.

1. Create an account on Heroku.com
2. Create an 'Application' on Heroku where the database will be attached. This does not have to contain an actual application, it can be empty.
3. Provision a NEW JawsDB database from the Heroku Elements Marketplace equivalent to the current database on Manifold *.
4. Inform us of the MySQL username of the new database by sending an email to support@jawsdb.com. JawsDB will replace the newly created database with the existing database on Manifold.
5. AFTER JawsDB informs the user that the database has been successfully replaced. Users may cancel your JawsDB account with Manifold.

* Users with a custom plan on Manifold should please reach out to us at the support email so we can create an equivalent custom plan for them on Heroku