Questions regarding production in Docker: 1. Once I followed the Containerization docs, I pushed it to gitlab, but then once I am on the VPS, how do I pull it? Should I pull it by using Clone? 2. When I pull it will it have preinstalled all taps, targets and scheduler, or should I run a command to install them? 3. How secure is the data in .env?

1. Containerizing your project is most useful if you already have experience with Kubernetes, which you could point at the GitLab container registry, so that it can take your Docker image and run it as a service with command

invoke airflow scheduler

. If you don't have Kubernetes experience yet and just have a Linux box you can SSH into, it'll be easier to skip containerization and clone the Git repo into a directory, and set up your system's service manager to make sure that

meltano invoke airflow scheduler

will always be running. The CI/CD job for your repo could then SSH into the VPS and run a little deploy script (that can live in your repo) that will run

git pull

,

pip install meltano

, and

meltano install

(as suggested in https://meltano.com/docs/production.html if you skip the "Containerized Meltano project" sections), followed by the system-appropriate command to restart the

meltano invoke airflow scheduler

service so that the latest changes are picked up.

Got it, thank you!