---
title: "Running your Kedro Pipeline from the command line"
description: "Running your kedro pipeline from the command line could not be any easier to get started. This is a concept that you may or may not do often depending on..."
date: 2021-08-24
published: true
tags:
  - kedro
  - python
template: blog-post
---


Running your kedro pipeline from the command line could not be any easier to
get started.  This is a concept that you may or may not do often depending on
your workflow, but its good to have under your belt.  I personally do this half
the time and run from ipython half the time.  In production, I mostly use docker
and that is all done with this cli.

[https://youtu.be/ZmccpLy-OEI](https://youtu.be/ZmccpLy-OEI){.youtube-embed}

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> 👆 Unsure what kedro is?  Check out this post.

## Kedro run

To run the whole darn project all we need to do is fire up a terminal, activate
our environment, and tell kedro to run.

``` bash
kedro run
```

## Specific Pipelines

Running a sub pipeline that we have created is as easy as telling kedro which
one we want to run.

``` bash
kedro run --pipeline dp
```

## Single Nodes

While developing a node or a small list of nodes in a larger pipeline its handy
to be able to run them one at a time.  Besides the use case of developing a
single node I would not reccomend leaning very heavy on running single nodes,
let the DAG do the work of figuring out which nodes to run for you.

``` bash
kedro run --pipeline dp --node create_model_input_table_node
kedro run --pipeline dp -n create_model_input_table_node
```

## Some DAG concepts

We will cover more of the benefits that we get from the graph nature of the DAG
in the future, but here is a quick peek at some things we can do.

``` bash
kedro run --pipeline dp --to-outputs preprocessed_shuttles
kedro run --pipeline dp --from-inputs preprocessed_shuttles
kedro run --pipeline dp --to-nodes create_model_input_table_node
```

## Multiple things

You can stack up multiple kedro dag concepts into a single run command.

```
kedro run --pipeline dp --to-nodes create_model_input_table_node --to-nodes preprocess_shuttles_node
```

## Related Links

* [what is kedro](https://waylonwalker.com/what-is-kedro/)
* [setting up a kedro environment](https://waylonwalker.com/kedro-environment/)
* [creating a new kedro project](https://waylonwalker.com/kedro-new/)
* [kedro run docs](https://kedro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/06_nodes_and_pipelines/04_run_a_pipeline.html)