Create an environment for managing staging and production workflows for the project

Teradata Developer Guides

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2026-08-18

Before deploying the project, create a dbt Cloud environment.

Note

In some cases, the left navigation menu may not be visible in dbt Cloud. In that case, click your profile or account icon at the bottom-left of the page, then go to Account settings > Credentials > select your project > configure your development environment and add a connection.

  1. From the left navigation, go to Orchestration > Environments.

    dbt Cloud - Navigate to environments

  2. Click + Create environment.

  3. In Environment settings, provide the following details:

    • Environment name: Enter a meaningful name, such as dbt-teradata-env.
    • Environment type: Select Deployment.
    • Set deployment type: Select Staging.
    • dbt version: Select Latest.

    Note

    For this quickstart, select Latest as the dbt version. Do not select a Fusion option.

    dbt Cloud - Environment settings

  4. In Connection profiles, click Assign profile, and create a new profile.

    dbt Cloud - Assign profile

  5. In New profile, provide a profile name and select the Teradata connection created earlier. If the connection is not available, click Add new connection and create a Teradata connection.

    dbt Cloud - Select Teradata connection profile

  6. Provide the deployment credentials:

    • Username
    • Password
    • Schema
  7. Click Test connection. Once the connection test completes successfully, create the profile. Then, select the newly created profile from the dropdown and save the environment.

    dbt Cloud - Test deployment connection

Now you have created a dbt Cloud environment for running jobs.