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Setup and Requirements

Requirements​

In order to start the application provided for this lab, it's recommended to have:

  • Python 3.11 or 3.12
  • invoke

Setup​

The lab can be started in different ways

  • In GitHub Codespaces
  • Locally on your laptop using poetry
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it's also possible to start the lab locally with devcontainer but this method is not covered in this documentation

Start on Github Codespaces​

Click on the below link to launch a GitHub Codespace:

Open in GitHub Codespaces

Click Create codespace on the screen that loads:

codespace_start

Install locally with poetry​

install poetry​

Poetry is a popular package manager for Python, it can be installed with the following command:

pipx install poetry

Check out the official documentation for poetry for more information

Poetry documentationhttps://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation

Clone the git repository​

git clone https://github.com/opsmill/workshop-data-modeling.git
cd workshop-data-modeling

Install the python packages with poetry​

poetry install

Enter the python environment created by poetry​

By default, poetry install all the packages in a dedicated python environment so in order for the lab to work you need to enter the right environment using the following command:

poetry shell
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As an alternative, it's possible to execute commands inside the python environment using poetry run in front of all commands.

Lab Commands​

To simplify the process, there is a CLI provided to be able to easily manage the lab using Invoke.

You can list the available invoke tasks as shown below:

invoke -l
Available tasks:

  lab1-destroy   Destroy Lab1.
  lab1-load      Load devices into Lab1.
  lab1-start     Start Lab1.
  lab1-test      Run pytest against Lab1.
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Omitted non-lab1 related invoke tasks.