I’m still finding the docs really convoluted and frustrating. I’m trying to set up a dbt-cloud integration and have been following along with this page. A few issues came up: 1.

EnvVar

didn’t work for me. It didn’t seem to substitute the values that the var held. When I changed them to

os.getenv

, it worked fine. So, what are the missing pieces here to get

EnvVar

working in this context? 2. A job called

run_staging_job

is defined that selects only assets in the

"staging"

group. However, it never discusses how to add dbt assets to this group. When I tried it in my project, this job was empty. 3. Step 4 is optional, but it never mentions why you might want to use this option. It wasn’t until I was developing locally and noticed that dagster was spinning up a

dbt compile

job every few minutes that I realized that it’s practically necessary for local development.

Hey man I’m on the same journey as you are, I asked the same questions too. Maybe the responses I got from the team will be relevant for you as well. 1. On EnvVar 2. On dbt compile

Thanks Lydia. Any luck figuring out how to tell dagster to only run dbt models with certain tags or model paths?

For adding to the group,

load_assets_from_dbt_project

accepts

node_info_to_group_fn

which you can use with a simple lambda

node_info_to_group_fn=lambda node_info: "my_group"

to set them all as a static group (Feedback to anyone from dagster team: might be more ergonomic to allow for a static string version of the argument!)

Thanks Brendan. I haven’t looked into it yet, but Owen told me that tag selectors only work with dbt-core. Have you done this with dbt-cloud?

Ah - I totally misread that.

Yeah, starting to think that I might need to finally learn how to use git submodules blob worry

Hey @Sterling Paramore we were able to get the integration working but theres a bunch of limitations w/ dbt-cloud specifically i have not for the life of me figured out how to tell dagster to just run specific model paths using dbt-cloud without causing a lot of queueing problems.