How to upgrade dbt - Githubissues

joellabes commented 3 years ago

claire 4:44 AM hey i have a discourse article idea for you to write this was a question from one of my students and it was a good q! “how do we upgrade the dbt version?” less from a “pip install upgrade” perspective, but more from a coordination perspective like:

add require-dbt-version to your project
try to dbt compile → you’ll get an error
upgrade your dbt version locally (maybe talk through how to help people understand whether they are using brew or pip, and which command to run)
try to dbt compile → you’ll probably hit another error
debug error, iterate (more info below)
then try to dbt run and debug any errors
open a PR
change the dbt version number for your CI job
Add a todo to your PR to get people to acknowledge that they have upgraded locally
merge, change your prod dbt jobs

common things you’ll need to upgrade:

dbt package versions (dbt clean, and dbt deps to update them)
anything that broke according to the changelog

god that’s tedious lol. but like all the things like that

amychen1776 commented 3 years ago

I wrote this to help enterprise folks understand how to think about what upgrading means in terms of workflow https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JTTXa0e3MkqhaV5wITXaZQYizucYbf3Xt76s-B-Y7X0/edit

joellabes commented 3 years ago

🌟 thank you!

joellabes commented 3 years ago

@jasnonaz draft here for your enjoyment! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pmAeE9UrmnrEY4i1tGqgfOegUuq03Kds1clyuD_4_UU/edit#

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