Set up local

• To install git. Refer to the Git documentation if you don’t have this installed.
• To have Python installed. Dagster supports Python 3.9 - 3.12.
• To install a package manager. To manage the python packages, we recommend uv which Dagster uses internally.

Clone the Dagster University project

Clone the Github repository. The command will depend on if you choose to clone with ssh or https.

ssh

git clone git@github.com:dagster-io/project-dagster-university.git

https

git clone https://github.com/dagster-io/project-dagster-university.git

After cloning the Dagster University project, you’ll want to navigate to specific course within the repository.

cd dagster_university/dagster_essentials

Install the dependencies

uv

To install the python dependencies with uv.

uv sync

This will create a virtual environment that you can now use.

source .venv/bin/activate

pip

Create the virtual environment.

python3 -m venv .venv

Enter the virtual environment.

source .venv/bin/activate

Install the packages.

pip install -e ".[dev]"

Create .env file

You will want to make a copy of the example file .env.example which will be used later on.

cp .env.example .env