disable_elementary_version_check only works if the config file is in the default directory

[pquadri]

Describe the bug After upgrading Elementary we started having an issue (in k8s, with no write access to the disk) of it trying to create a folder in the home directory, even though we specified a different config_dir. The initialization of Config() done to check disable_elementary_version_check does not pass any parameter, and searches for the config file only in the default path.

To Reproduce Put a config file anywhere but in the default directory and check that the disable_elementary_version_check is not picked up correctly.

Expected behavior Every usage of Config() picks up the relevant CLI arguments.

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Environment (please complete the following information):

• Elementary CLI (edr) version: 0.17.0
• Elementary dbt package version: 0.17.0
• dbt version you're using 1.8.3
• Data warehouse Snowflake
• Infrastructure details: Docker container on K8s in production

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[abhipalsingh]

I have a similar issue where our k8s cluster does not have internet access to download elementary dbt packages. I have already downloaded them into my dbt project directory. However, the code looks for those packages under elementary's pip install path's dbt_project folder. --project-dir edr parameter is not considered.

Below log is taken from my local system to show that it downloads elementary packages on runtime.

2025-03-23 10:35:58 — INFO — Running with edr=0.18.0
INFO:elementary.cli.cli:Running with edr=0.18.0
2025-03-23 10:35:58 — INFO — Installing packages for edr internal dbt package...
INFO:elementary.clients.dbt.command_line_dbt_runner:Installing packages for edr internal dbt package...
2025-03-23 10:35:58 — INFO — Running dbt command --log-format json deps --project-dir /workspaces/python/elementary/elementary/monitor/dbt_project

To circumvent this, I have temporarily baked elementary dbt packages under site-packages in my container image using dbt deps, which is not ideal.

Also, raised a PR https://github.com/elementary-data/elementary/pull/1867 to fix this issue in edr. I can help update product documentation to share below new setup command.

edr monitor dbt-init

[abhipalsingh]

Can someone help merge the PR #1867 raised above or let me know if a change is needed? Thanks

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