Hello! I’m trying to figure out if it is possible to run

meltano install

without connecting to the system database. My usecase is that I’m trying to install extractors and loaders at docker build time in an environment that doesn’t have network access to the system database and has no real reason to have the db credentials. I then plan to run migrations separately (it seems like I can do that using

meltano upgrade database

, but I haven’t tested that yet). Even running

meltano install extractors loaders

fails if

database_uri

is not reachable. Based on this, it seems like my only option is to not set

database_uri

in the config and use an env variable instead an just have the docker build run migrations against a local sqlite database even though I don’t plan to use that database. Or is there another approach to this?

Pretty sure this is what I'm doing. I tend not to set env vars in my docker file anyway FWIW

Heya! Did you manage to solve this? I have exact same use case and problem 😓

No, I didn’t. I gave up on trying to set

database_uri

in the config and just use a local sqlite database during install time.