Ability to add custom compute_kind icons

[razafinl]

What's the use case?

Dagit is used extensively to monitor jobs but also provide a visual representation of our asset and data pipelines catalog.

compute_kind is used to quickly categorize and understand which underlying system or datasource is being used for a given asset/data pipeline.

As mentioned in this discussion, a set of compute_kind for popular technologies are shown with associated icons and can easily be recognized when navigating asset list.

For more specific use-cases, we would like to be able to extend the list of icons associated to compute_kind tags.

Ideas of implementation

A specific folder containing list of custom icons with a map between icon and compute_kind tag could be provided to Dagit instance(s) so that icon can be displayed on the Web UI instead of generic name and color.

Additional information

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Does this seem feasible to you?

[bengotow]

Hey folks, thanks for filing this! We discussed this on our roadmap call today and I think it would be cool, but we'd like to approach it as part of a larger effort to add this kind of customization to Dagster Cloud (we don't have a framework for uploading the images or including them as part of the deployment), and possibly a re-imagining of these compute tags.

One short-term hack might be to use emoji as your custom compute kinds, which I noticed someone was doing in #17570.