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Deploying with GitHub workflows - Data Build Tool (dbt) Tutorial
From the course: Data Engineering with dbt
Deploying with GitHub workflows
- [Lecturer] So we have our production database, and for our profiles, we have our production profile. So how do we get this to run automatically without our own intervention? Well, there are multiple ways to do this, and it's really dependent on your database and the systems you have. So this won't be a one size fit all solution and you're going to have to research what you do for that. But for this course, we're going to keep it simple and use GitHub Actions workflows. And to do that, we already have it set up and we have .github and workflows and we're going to add a new workflow in here. So to create a new one, let's go to a terminal. Let's go to our terminal, let's check what directory you're currently in. And note that you can't see .github 'cause it has a dot, so that means it's a hidden file. touch .github workflows, and then we're going to call this run-dbt-prod.yml. And so we have that here. And I'm going to…
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