Does someone have a good resource for understanding multi-profile deployments. Elementary’s dashboard requires a separate profile in the

profiles.yml

for elementary. Our configuration just uses a single profile within

profiles.yml

so we need to add a new profile entirely? I’m trying to understand what it means to have multiple profiles? Targets basically map to a credential set + schema where the data is building to. What does it mean to have not a separate target but a separate profile? The dbt docs are very vague on this

Based on my recent experience, you will have both profiles in the same

profiles.yml

and target your Elementary profile when running Elementary models and commands. For example, normally I would run

dbt run -m path/to/my/model --target prod

in production to target the

prod

profile but for generating/updating Elementary metadata tables I would run

dbt run -s elementary --target elementary

instead.

Hi @Isaac Santelli, the separate profile is used for the

edr

command, you can see how to set it up using the "configuring the elementary profile" section in this page of our docs