Hi everyone, just getting started and had a question about using Meltano collaboratively. If I deploy a read-only version of a project someone has worked on locally to a shared location, does the shared instance need access to the same system DB? I notice by default the sqlite DB is in the .meltano directory which is .gitignore-d, does that mean projects are portable without their system DBs? Thanks.

The system DB stores data on incremental replication, and settings stored using the UI (in non-read-only mode), but that's it, so it's specific to a deployment environment more than a project. In production, it's recommended to use a shared Postgres system DB: https://meltano.com/docs/production.html#storing-metadata

Makes sense, thank you!