If I use a python console to materialize an asset with:

result = materialize(
    [my_assets], 
    run_config=default_config, 
)

I'd now like to use the generated asset in my console. How to I access the asset? Part 2: If I want to work with an asset on my deployed dagit server, can I load it up on my local python console for debugging purposes?

you can get the value returned by the asset doing

result.output_for_node("my_assets")

for 2 it’s a bit more complicated. How are you deploying dagster?

Thanks @jamie

for 2 it’s a bit more complicated. How are you deploying dagster?

on k8s

ok. and where are the outputs of your assets being stored?

s3, which I can access from my dev machine.

ok! you might be able to do this https://docs.dagster.io/concepts/assets/software-defined-assets#loading-asset-values-outside-of-dagster-runs basically you would import your Definitions object into your python console and run the

load_asset_value

command. That should hook into the IO manager used to store the asset and load it for you

I'll give it a shot. Thanks again. The

output_for_node

command works great. Just what I was looking for.