# General

**URL:** https://discuss.dvc.org/c/general/8.md

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## [About the General category](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/about-the-general-category/305)

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**Author:** [@shcheklein](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/shcheklein)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 1, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/about-the-general-category/305 "2020-01-01T18:26:52Z")

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Topics that don’t need a category, or don’t fit into any other existing category.

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## [Welcome to the DVC community forum](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/welcome-to-the-dvc-community-forum/8)

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**Author:** [@system](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/system)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/welcome-to-the-dvc-community-forum/8 "2018-03-17T09:15:21Z")

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This is the place to ask questions about the DVC tool and ML best practices. We are on a mission to build open source tools that help everyone doing ML and data science. Please take a moment to join us by clicking the S…

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## [Integrating MLflow and DVC for Robust Machine Learning Lifecycle Management](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/integrating-mlflow-and-dvc-for-robust-machine-learning-lifecycle-management/2644)

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**Author:** [@daniel.castillo99](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/daniel.castillo99)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 6, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/integrating-mlflow-and-dvc-for-robust-machine-learning-lifecycle-management/2644 "2025-10-06T18:33:00Z")

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Hello community, I would like to open a discussion on comprehensive management of experiments, models, and data in real-world machine learning projects using DVC and MLflow. Both systems offer features that sometimes ov…

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## [The more I learn, the better DVC gets](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/the-more-i-learn-the-better-dvc-gets/2577)

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**Author:** [@JohnAtl](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/JohnAtl)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2025, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/the-more-i-learn-the-better-dvc-gets/2577 "2025-08-12T08:34:39Z")

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Kudos to everyone working on this project! As my needs change, I learn more about mlops, etc., I think I’m finally grokking dvc and understand the problems it can solve for me. Thanks!

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## [I created a Jupyter cell magic that allows you to turn a notebook cell into a DVC pipeline stage](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/i-created-a-jupyter-cell-magic-that-allows-you-to-turn-a-notebook-cell-into-a-dvc-pipeline-stage/2333)

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**Author:** [@petebachant](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/petebachant)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 30, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/i-created-a-jupyter-cell-magic-that-allows-you-to-turn-a-notebook-cell-into-a-dvc-pipeline-stage/2333 "2024-11-30T13:54:29Z")

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I’ve been working on an open source tool to help with reproducible research, which leverages DVC quite a bit. I recently added a feature that some may find helpful. You can add a cell magic to a Jupyter Notebook cell to …

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## [Help Needed: DVC Repository Initialization Error](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/help-needed-dvc-repository-initialization-error/2180)

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**Author:** [@elenarossi](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/elenarossi)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 2, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/help-needed-dvc-repository-initialization-error/2180 "2024-08-02T03:41:22Z")

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Hey everyone, I hope you’re all doing well! I’m pretty new to DVC and have been trying to set up my first project, but I’ve hit a bit of a snag. When I try to initialize a DVC repository using dvc init, I keep getting t…

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## [Getting started with DVC - developer vs CI environments](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/getting-started-with-dvc-developer-vs-ci-environments/1097)

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**Author:** [@drjasonharrison](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/drjasonharrison)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 10, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/getting-started-with-dvc-developer-vs-ci-environments/1097 "2024-07-10T09:34:08Z")

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Hi, I’m getting started with DVC and after a couple of days wrestling with it managed to take the initial instructions for “Get Started” to use S3, to document how other developers on my team can use DVC, write scripts …

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## [Snowflake to SSIS](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/snowflake-to-ssis/1989)

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**Author:** [@hemanth4](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/hemanth4)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 9, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/snowflake-to-ssis/1989 "2024-03-09T09:12:25Z")

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I am getting this error “indicator pointer is required by the driver to indicate null output data” while I am importing data from Snowflake to SQL server using SSIS. I have created an ODBC driver connection in order to a…

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## [Print plots and metrics directly in the terminal](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/print-plots-and-metrics-directly-in-the-terminal/483)

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**Author:** [@jcpsantiago](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/jcpsantiago)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/print-plots-and-metrics-directly-in-the-terminal/483 "2020-09-07T06:21:51Z")

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Wasn’t sure where to best share this. Let me know if there are more appropriate channels. If you use the fish shell and the kitty terminal (not sure if other terminals can print images) you can print DVC plots directly …

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## [Understanding data registries and remotes](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/understanding-data-registries-and-remotes/1926)

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**Author:** [@lusk](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/lusk)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 22, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/understanding-data-registries-and-remotes/1926 "2024-01-22T14:43:47Z")

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Hi all, I am creating a data registry for my team to enable them to easily pull data down to their projects. The data in the registry should never be directly modified by these projects—it should simply serve as an agno…

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## [DVC deployment in kubernetes cluster running over RHEL8.7 is not successfull as pod restart giving crashloopback error](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-deployment-in-kubernetes-cluster-running-over-rhel8-7-is-not-successfull-as-pod-restart-giving-crashloopback-error/1863)

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**Author:** [@anilchrout](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/anilchrout)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 30, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/dvc-deployment-in-kubernetes-cluster-running-over-rhel8-7-is-not-successfull-as-pod-restart-giving-crashloopback-error/1863 "2023-11-30T18:09:09Z")

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Hello, I am trying to deploy dvc in kubernetes cluster with below base images, but neither way I am getting success for creation of pod having crashloopbackoff error where image pull got success all time. base images I…

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## [A sample data registry handled with GitHub CI](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/a-sample-data-registry-handled-with-github-ci/992)

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**Author:** [@josecelano](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/josecelano)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 9, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/a-sample-data-registry-handled-with-github-ci/992 "2021-12-09T07:37:06Z")

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Hi, I really like the idea of having Data Registries to maintain and re-use datasets. I’m working on an open-source project where we want to apply this concept but not necessarily related to machine learning. We have a …

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## [Git Flow for DVC 🌿](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/git-flow-for-dvc/578)

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**Author:** [@rabefabi](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/rabefabi)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [December 11, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/git-flow-for-dvc/578 "2020-12-11T20:02:59Z")

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Hey everyone, Over the past couple of months we have started using DVC in our small team. With a handful of developers all coding, training models & committing in the same repository, we soon realized the need for a wo…

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## [Restrict access to DVC repo](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/restrict-access-to-dvc-repo/553)

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**Author:** [@andreassand](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/andreassand)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 10, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/restrict-access-to-dvc-repo/553 "2020-11-10T23:52:06Z")

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Does DVC have any support for restricting access to the DVC repo in order to make sure data is not lost / corrupted? The use case is this: We are a group of data scientists / developers working on the same data. Data is…
