Guide to CLI commands

Note: This documentation is based on Kedro 0.14.2, if you spot anything that is incorrect then please create an issue or pull request.

The kedro command line interface (CLI) helps with reproducibility in projects by allowing you to associate a set of commands and dependencies with a target and then execute them from the command line when inside a Kedro project directory. All project related CLI commands should be run from the project’s root directory.

The supported commands are specified in the kedro_cli.py file. It is easy to extend kedro_cli.py by either modifying the file or injecting commands into it by using the plugin framework.

Global Kedro commands

Show version and exit:

kedro -V
kedro --version

See extensive logging and error stack traces:

kedro -v
kedro --verbose

Get help on Kedro commands:

kedro -h
kedro --help

Create a new kedro project:

kedro new

See the Kedro API documentation (including the tutorial):

kedro docs

Project-specific Kedro commands

kedro run

Runs the main() function in run.py (src/project-name/run.py)

To make sure the project is shareable and reproducible, you should maintain the kedro run program definitions in the kedro_cli.py to point to the entry point in your project.

kedro install

Install all package dependencies specified in requirements.txt

kedro test

Run all pytest unit tests found in src/tests, including coverage (see the file .coveragerc).

kedro package

Package your application as one .egg file and one .whl file within the src/dist/ folder of your project. For further information about packaging for Python, documentation is provided here.

kedro build-docs

Build the project documentation using the Sphinx framework. To further customise it, please refer to docs/source/conf.py and the corresponding section of the Sphinx documentation.

kedro jupyter notebook, kedro jupyter lab, kedro ipython

Start a Jupyter Notebook, Lab or REPL session respectively.

Every time you start or restart a notebook kernel, a startup script (<project-root>/.ipython/profile_default/startup/00-kedro-init.py) will add the following variables in scope:

  • proj_dir (str)
  • proj_name (str)
  • conf (ConfigLoader)
  • io (DataCatalog)
  • parameters (dict)
  • startup_error (Exception)

To reload these at any point in your notebook (e.g. if you updated catalog.yml) use the line magic %reload_kedro.

This line magic can be also used to see the error message if any of the variables above are undefined.

kedro activate-nbstripout

Typically output cells of Jupyter Notebook should not be tracked by git, especially if they contain sensitive information.

This command adds a git hook which clears all notebook output cells before committing anything to git. This needs to run only once per local repository.

Using Python

You can also invoke the Kedro CLI as a Python module:

python -m kedro