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Set up dbt with Airflow

  • dbt Fusion support
  • Apache Airflow® and dbt dependencies conflicts

Connect to your database

  • Connection options
  • Use your own profiles.yml file
  • Use a profile mapping
  • Customising the profile config per dbt node

Translating dbt into Airflow

  • Parsing Methods
  • Selecting what to run
  • Configure tests
  • Managing sources
  • Render Config
  • Customize node conversion

How Cosmos runs dbt

  • How Cosmos runs dbt
  • Choose an execution mode
  • Run dbt in an Apache Airflow® worker
    • Local execution mode
    • Watcher execution mode (experimental)
    • Cosmos-managed virtual environment execution mode
    • Apache Airflow® async execution mode
  • Run dbt in a container
    • Docker execution mode
    • Kubernetes execution mode
    • Watcher Kubernetes execution mode (experimental)
    • AWS ECS execution mode
    • AWS EKS execution mode
    • Azure Container Instance execution mode
    • GCP Cloud Run Job execution mode
  • Callbacks
  • Operators
    • dbt command operators
    • Operator arguments
    • Overriding operator arguments per dbt node (or group of nodes)
  • Additional Customization
    • Scheduling
    • Partial parsing
    • Apache Airflow® configuration overrides with Astronomer Cosmos

Multi-project Setups

  • Handle cross-project references

dbt Documentation

  • Generating Docs
  • Hosting Docs

Cosmos DevEx

  • Configuring Lineage
  • Compiled SQL
  • Logging
  • Task display name
  • Guides
  • Run dbt in an Apache Airflow® worker

Run dbt in an Apache Airflow® worker#

Run dbt in an Apache Airflow® worker

  • Local execution mode
  • Watcher execution mode (experimental)
  • Cosmos-managed virtual environment execution mode
  • Apache Airflow® async execution mode

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