Hi all, I’m new to Meltano. Following the getting started documentation using docker to generate my project and install some plugins I noted, that the working directory in the examples is not the same: projects vs project. Could that be a potential problem if I accidentally mix up working directories?

Hi @delbert_friesen! This is something we should fix in our docs, but it’s not going to be a problem. In the first example, we are mounting the current directory (

$(pwd)

) as

/projects

in the Docker container, and then setting the same

/projects

as the working directory. In the second example, it’s

/project

instead. Since we start a new container with each

docker run

command, it doesn’t really matter if we use

/projects

or

/project

. We just need to make sure that the directory names match in the

docker run

command.

Another point, if I add the docker file with

meltano add files docker

the docker file itself uses the working directory project

This depends on which Docker container you are running this command in. If you are running this command in the container that was started using the second command which uses

/project

as the working directory, then that’s the directory that will be used.