Maintaining environments with DBT and lakeFS
DBT could run on lakeFS with the Spark adapter or the Presto/Trino adapter.
Both Spark and Presto use Hive metastore or Glue in order to manage tables and views.
When creating a branch in lakeFS we receive a logical copy of the data that could be accessed by s3://my-repo/branch/...
In order to run our DBT project on a new created branch we need to have a copy of the metadata as well.
The lakectl dbt command generates all the metadata needed in order to work on the new created branch, continuing from the last state in the source branch. The dbt lakectl command does this using dbt commands and lakectl metastore commands.
Configuration
In order to run the lakectl-dbt commands we need to configure both dbt and lakectl.
Assuming dbt is already configured using either a Spark or Presto/Trino target
you will need to add configurations to give access to your catalog (metastore).
This is done by adding the following configurations to the lakectl configuration file (by default ~/.lakectl.yaml
)
Hive metastore
metastore:
type: hive
hive:
uri: hive-metastore:9083
Glue
metastore:
type: glue
glue:
catalog-id: 123456789012
region: us-east-1
profile: default # optional, implies using a credentials file
credentials:
access_key_id: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
secret_access_key: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY
Views
lakectl copies all models materialized as tables and incremental directly on your metastore. copying views should be done manually or with lakectl
Using lakectl
The generate_schema_name
macro could be used by lakectl to create models using dbt on a dynamic schema.
The following command will add a macro to your project allowing lakectl to run dbt on the destination schema using an environment variable
lakectl dbt generate-schema-macro
Manually
In case you don’t want to add the generate_schema_name
macro to your project
you could create the views on the destination schema manually.
For every run:
- use the
--skip-views
flag - change the default schema to be the branch schema in your dbt configuration file
- run dbt on all views
dbt run --select config.materialized:view
Create Schema
Creating the schema From your dbt project run:
lakectl dbt create-branch-schema --branch my-branch --to-schema my_branch
Advanced options could be found here