@ende you're absolutely right here. Even when you've packaged a project and run it via

python -m

you can't run it from outside your project directory because you need

conf

to be in the cwd. This seems quite silly and something we should fix, e.g. by providing a

conf_path

CLI option on

kedro run

. Just for now you should indeed be able to hack something together by modifying

CONF_SOURCE

in settings.py. I've done this before and it does work. The PR that @bgereke unfortunately won't change this behaviour, but it's very much on my radar since that is still work in progress! In future this should be easier to do. For now your best option is to hack settings.py or write a custom Python script like @bgereke suggested