dlt+ Project Guide

In this multichapter tutorial, you will learn how to use the dlt+ project commands to create and manage dlt projects. A basic understanding of how dlt works and dlts core concepts is required to follow this tutorial.

Setup notes

We advise to create a virtual environment and install the dlt plus package in it: pip install dlt-plus. You will need a valid dlt-plus license to run the commands.

Generel information

The main commands covered in this tutorial are:

• dlt project init - Initialize a new dlt project
• dlt destination ... add/list - Add a new destination to your project
• dlt source ... add/list - Add a new source to your project
• dlt pipeline ... add/list - Add a new pipeline to your project
• dlt profile ... add/list - Add a new profile to your project
• dlt dataset ... head / row-counts - Inspect datasets

You can always use the --help flag to discover all options for each command. If you need a stacktrace if something goes wrong, you can add the --debug flag after the dlt keyword: dlt --debug project config show.

For now there are three chapters in this tutorial:

• Chapter 1: Initializing a new project
• Chapter 2: Adding entities to your project
• Chapter 3: Configuration and profiles