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

Run the following to clone the project.

git clone git@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_and_etl

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]"