Hey Meltano Team, Is there a way to

meltano ui

in background, similar to

meltano invoke airflow webserver -D

which runs airflow in background? What is the recommended way to run the UI in background in the container when other ELT pipelines are running.

@rahul_anand

meltano ui

does not currently have a native "deamonize" feature like Airflow's

-D

, but you can use the shell

&

operator to move any command to the background: https://datacadamia.com/lang/bash/process/ampersand

@douwe_maan I have not used

meltano ui

much so may be some basic questions. If I run the

meltano ui

in a separate container how will

meltno ui

interact with other containers to configure, launch or schedule jobs?

@rahul_anand If you're running

meltano ui

inside a containerized project, the project will be readonly and it will not be able to make any changes to project files anymore: https://meltano.com/docs/production.html#containerized-meltano-project-7 https://meltano.com/docs/settings.html#project-readonly That means you won't be able to install new plugins or create new schedules (since all of this would be stored in your version controlled project), but as long as you're using a separate system database (https://meltano.com/docs/production.html#storing-metadata), you can still run and view the status of existing pipelines and modify their configuration