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Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog adds dbt metadata import, Data Products support default IAM roles

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Google Cloud's Knowledge Catalog now generally supports importing dbt metadata, enabling users to capture dbt lineage and semantic relationships for BigQuery tables from dbt Cloud, Core, and Fusion. This enhancement allows better discovery and management of data assets within Dataplex. Additionally, Data Products now allow configuring a default IAM role for access groups, which is automatically granted to packaged assets and can be overridden for individual assets, simplifying access management for data product owners.

Features (2) ›
  • Knowledge Catalog

    Knowledge Catalog support for importing dbt metadata is now generally available and includes the following updates: You can import metadata from dbt Cloud job runs using the dbt Cloud interface, the dbt platform CLI, or the dbt Administrative API and webhooks. You can generate and import metadata artifacts from dbt Core 2.x and dbt Fusion in addition to dbt Core 1.x. You can import entry links ( --include-entry-links and --skip-bigquery-link ) to capture dbt lineage and semantic relationships and link materialized dbt nodes to physical BigQuery tables, and search related BigQuery entries using

  • Knowledge Catalog

    Data products now support configuring a default IAM role in an access group. The default role, once configured, is automatically granted on all packaged and supported assets in the data product. Data product owners can override the default role for individual assets. In addition, the assets table in a data product now shows the permission state of each asset ( Applied , Failed , or Unsupported ). For more information, see Create data products and Manage data products .

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https://docs.cloud.google.com/release-notes#September_24_2026

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