Beginning with Metabase 0.32, drivers must be stored in a plugins directory in the same directory where metabase.jar is, or you can specify the directory by setting the environment variable MB_PLUGINS_DIR. There are a few options to get up and running with a custom driver.

1. Download a fairly recent Metabase binary release (jar file) from the Metabase distribution page.
2. Download the Firebolt driver jar from the "Firebolt Driver".
3. Download the firebolt jdbc driver jar from the "Firebolt JDBC Driver".
4. Create a directory and copy the metabase.jar to it.
5. In that directory create a sub-directory called plugins.
6. Copy the Firebolt driver jar and Firebolt jdbc driver jar to the plugins directory.
7. Make sure you are the in the directory where your metabase.jar lives.
8. Run java -jar metabase.jar.

In either case, you should see a message on startup similar to:

04-15 06:14:08 DEBUG plugins.lazy-loaded-driver :: Registering lazy loading driver :firebolt...
04-15 06:14:08 INFO driver.impl :: Registered driver :firebolt (parents: [:sql-jdbc]) 🚚

1. Once you've started up Metabase, open http://localhost:3000 , go to add a database and select "Firebolt".
2. You'll need to provide the Database Name, Username and Password.

• Leiningen

1. Clone and build metabase dependency jar.

   git clone https://github.com/metabase/metabase
   cd metabase
   clojure -X:deps prep
   cd modules/drivers
   clojure -X:deps prep
   cd ../..
   clojure -T:build uberjar

2. Clone metabase-firebolt-driver repo

   cd modules/drivers
   git clone https://github.com/firebolt-db/metabase-firebolt-driver

3. Download Firebolt jdbc driver from the Firebolt generic jdbc driver and paste it in metabase-firebolt-driver directory to make a local maven repo.

   cp ../../target/uberjar/metabase.jar metabase-firebolt-driver/
   cd metabase-firebolt-driver
   mkdir repo
   mvn deploy:deploy-file -Durl=file:repo -DgroupId=com.firebolt -DartifactId=metabase-core -Dversion=1.40 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=metabase.jar
   mvn deploy:deploy-file -Durl=file:repo -DgroupId=com.firebolt -DartifactId=firebolt-jdbc -Dversion=1.0.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=firebolt-jdbc-1.18-jar-with-dependencies.jar

4. Build the jar

   LEIN_SNAPSHOTS_IN_RELEASE=true DEBUG=1 lein uberjar

5. Let's assume we download metabase.jar from the Metabase jar to ~/metabase/ and we built the project above. Copy the built jar and also Firebolt generic jdbc driver jar to the Metabase plugins directly and run Metabase from there!

   cd ~/metabase/
   java -jar metabase.jar

You should see a message on startup similar to:

2019-05-07 23:27:32 INFO plugins.lazy-loaded-driver :: Registering lazy loading driver :firebolt...
2019-05-07 23:27:32 INFO metabase.driver :: Registered driver :firebolt (parents: #{:sql-jdbc}) 🚚