Building a pipeline using Software-defined Assets#

Dagster is used to build and maintain data assets. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the basics of building your first pipeline and creating assets in Dagster.

By the end of this tutorial, you will:

• Think about your data pipelines as a graph of assets
• Install Dagster
• Write an asset that ingests data
• Make DataFrames and visualizations and connect them together
• Automate your pipelines to run on a schedule
• Use I/O managers to save your data
• Manage your control plane of services and integrations
• Learn what's next in Dagster

Ready to get started? In the next section, we'll help you understand what assets are and how viewing your data as assets can make your work easier.