Airflow on Kubernetes is quite popular isn’t it? There is a good chance that you know Kubernetes, that you even have a Kubernetes cluster and you would like to deploy and run Airflow on it. However, Kubernetes is hard. There is so many things to deal with that it can be really laborious to just …
The new Airflow API is here! After waiting impatiently for years, the Airflow API is finally stable and reliable enough to be used in production! Back in the day, I’m pretty sure that you remember well the Experimental API and its lack of endpoints and documentation. In fact, as it was “experimental” you shouldn’t even …
Airflow Sensors are one of the most commonly used type of operators. Why? Because they allow you to check if a criteria is met to get completed. You need to wait for a file? check if a SQL entry exists? delay the execution of your DAG? That’s the few possibilities of the Airflow Sensors. If …
Looking for creating your first Airflow DAG? Wondering how to process your data in Airflow? What are the steps to code your own data pipelines? You’ve come to the right place! At the end of this short tutorial, you will be able to code your first Airflow DAG! You might think it’s hard to start …
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Looking for a way to choose one task or another? You want to execute a task based on a condition? You multiple tasks but only one should be executed if a criterion is true? You’ve come to the right place! The BranchPythonOperator does exactly what you are looking for. It’s common to have DAGs with …
Wondering how to share data between tasks? What are XCOMs in Apache Airflow? Well you are at the right place. In this tutorial, you are going to learn everything you need about XComs in Airflow. What are they, how they work, how can you define them, how to get them and more. If you followed …
One of the first operators I discovered with Airflow was the Postgres Operator. The Postgres Operator allows you to interact with your Postgres database. Whether you want to create a table, delete records, insert records, you will use the PostgresOperator. Nonetheless, you will quickly be faced to some questions. How can I get records from …
Since I started creating courses a year ago, I got so many messages asking me what are the best practices in Apache Airflow. As engineer, we always seek for the best ways to apply what we learn while being constantly improving ourselves. In this series of tutorial, I would like to share with you everything …
Wouldn’t be convenient to be able to run Apache Airflow locally with the Kubernetes Executor on a multi-node Kubernetes cluster? That’s could be a great way to test your DAGs and understand how Airflow works in a Kubernetes environment isn’t it? Well that’s exactly what we are going to do here. I will show you …
Apache Airflow 2.0 is coming with a lot of big improvements. In this post, I’m gonna explain to you what are the most important features to expect what they solve. If you are totally new to Airflow, check my introduction course right there, or if you want an in-depth approach check my course here. Let’s …
