Is there a simple way to use the DBT client from Dagster, without a DBT server running? I'm basically just looking for a package to support templated SQL executed from files in a neat way.

You can use the

dbt_cli

ops to run it. We have an job that downloads the repo, then runs the

dbt_cli_op

. You can passing all the normal args to dbt that way. My recommendation would be to use your dbt project as a code location so that you don't have to worry about downloading the latest repo within your op -- you just execute the CLI commands via dagster.