Ingest Owner from dbt
Ingest the model/table owner information from dbt manifest.json or catalog.json file into openmetadata tables.
The owner can be a user or a team in OpenMetadata.
Follow the link here to add the owner to the dbt project's schema.yml file
Requirements
1. Owner information in manifest.json file
Openmetadata fetches the owner information from the manifest.json file. Below is a sample manifest.json file node containing owner information under node_name->metadata->owner.
2. Owner information in catalog.json file
Openmetadata fetches the owner information from the catalog.json file. Below is a sample catalog.json file node containing owner information under node_name->metadata->owner.
3. Adding the User or Team to OpenMetadata
The user or team which will be set as the entity owner should be first created in OpenMetadata.
While linking the owner from manifest.json or catalog.json files to the entity, OpenMetadata first searches for the user if it is present. If the user is not present it searches for the team
Following steps shows adding a User to OpenMetadata:
1. Click on the Users section from homepage
Click Users page
Click Users page
2. Click on the Add User button
Click Add User
- Enter the details as shown for the user
If the owner's name in manifest.json or catalog.json file is openmetadata, you need to enter openmetadata@youremail.com in the email id section of add user form as shown below.
Add User
Following steps shows adding a Team to OpenMetadata:
1. Click on the Teams section from homepage
Click Teams page
Click Teams page
2. Click on the Add Team button
Click Add Team
3. Enter the details as shown for the team
If the owner's name in manifest.json or catalog.json file is openmetadata, you need to enter openmetadata in the name section of add team form as shown below.
Add Team
Linking the Owner to the table
After running the ingestion workflow with dbt you can see the created user or team getting linked to the table as it's owner as it was specified in the manifest.json or catalog.json file.
Linked User
Overriding the existing table Owners
To establish a unified and reliable system for owners, a single source of truth is necessary. It either is directly OpenMetadata, if individuals want to go there and keep updating, or if they prefer to keep it centralized in dbt, then we can always rely on that directly.
When the Update Owners toggle is enabled during the configuration of dbt ingestion, existing owners of tables will be overwritten with the dbt owners.
If toggle is disabled during the configuration of dbt ingestion, dbt owners will only be updated for tables in OpenMetadata that currently have no owners. Existing owners will remain unchanged and will not be overwritten with dbt owners.
Update dbt Owners