At the core of the Meltano experience is your Meltano project, which represents the single source of truth regarding your ELT pipelines: how data should be integrated and transformed, how the pipelines should be orchestrated, and how the various plugins that make up your pipelines should be configured.
Since a Meltano project is just a directory on your filesystem containing text-based files, you can treat it like any other software development project and benefit from DataOps best practices such as version control, code review, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
You can initialize a new Meltano project using [meltano init](<https://meltano.com/docs/command-line-interface.html>)
.