Hello, Not sure if it's the correct channel but I was wondering if it's possible to let Meltano point to (or integrate with) an existing DBT installation or environment rather than have it set up its own? (I'm walking through the tutorial). Thanks 🙂

Hi Lennart. Yeah, you can point to an existing dbt executable by adding the dbt plugin bu then removing the

pip_url

property and instead overriding

executable

to point to your existing dbt installation.

That's awesome. Could this also work for DBT Cloud?

I’m not sure I follow. Meltano and dbt Cloud can be used irrespective of each other. If your dbt models are part of a Meltano project under

transform/

, I’m sure you can configure the project in dbt Cloud to use that subdirectory.

Hey Edgar, sorry for the late response. I mean that the existing DBT runs on DBT Cloud and I'd like to store the transform models in the central repository for that DBT Cloud deployment