Prerequisites

This page describes the system prerequisites needed to run SQLMesh and provides instructions for meeting them.

SQLMesh prerequisites

You'll need Python 3.8 or higher to use SQLMesh. You can check your python version by running the following command:

python3 --version

or:

python --version

Note: If python --version returns 2.x, replace all python commands with python3, and pip with pip3.

Additional prerequisites for integrations

If integrating with Airflow, you'll also need to install the SQLMesh Python package on all nodes of the Airflow cluster. For more information, refer to Integrate with Airflow.

Next steps

Now that your machine meets the prerequisites, install SQLMesh.