CI/CD patterns for dbt projects

Remember how you used to test SQL changes in production? More than changing the way we build data pipelines, dbt also provides some lesser-known features that help you manage their deployment.

If you’ve ever wondered how to integrate dbt into your CI/CD processes (think automatic project linting, spinning up testing environments, parsing the manifest file), this session is for you!

We’ll work our way through a template CI/CD workflow using GitHub Actions, and learn some dbt tricks (like using state and defer that allow you to slim down the whole process).