Get Started with DVC

Before we begin, settle on a directory for this guide. Everything we will do will be self contained there.

$ mkdir example-get-started
$ cd example-get-started
$ git init

Initializing a project

Inside your chosen directory, we will use our current working directory as a DVC project. Let's initialize it by running dvc init inside a Git project:

$ dvc init

A few internal files are created that should be added to Git:

$ git status
Changes to be committed:
        new file:   .dvc/.gitignore
        new file:   .dvc/config
        ...
$ git commit -m "Initialize DVC"

Now you're ready to DVC!

Following This Guide

To help you understand and use DVC better, consider the following three use-cases: data management, experiment tracking and model management. You may pick any to start learning about how DVC helps you "solve" that scenario!

Choose a trail to jump into its first chapter:

• Data Management - Track and version large amounts of data along with your code, and use DVC as a build system for reproducible, data driven pipelines.

• Experiment Management - Easily track your experiments and their progress by only instrumenting your code, and collaborate on ML experiments like software engineers do for code.

• Model Management - Use the DVC model registry to manage the lifecycle of your models in an auditable way. Easily access your models and integrate your model registry actions into CICD pipelines to follow GitOps best practices.