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#Concepts

Airflow Concepts and Architecture

#Workflow

#Setup - Official Version

(For the section on the Custom/Lightweight setup, scroll down)

#Setup

Airflow Setup with Docker, through official guidelines

#Execution

  1. Build the image (only first-time, or when there's any change in the Dockerfile, takes ~15 mins for the first-time):

    docker-compose build

    or (for legacy versions)

    docker build .

  2. Initialize the Airflow scheduler, DB, and other config

    docker-compose up airflow-init

  3. Kick up the all the services from the container:

    docker-compose up

  4. In another terminal, run docker-compose ps to see which containers are up & running (there should be 7, matching with the services in your docker-compose file).

  5. Login to Airflow web UI on localhost:8080 with default creds: airflow/airflow

  6. Run your DAG on the Web Console.

  7. On finishing your run or to shut down the container/s:

    docker-compose down

    To stop and delete containers, delete volumes with database data, and download images, run:

    docker-compose down --volumes --rmi all

    or

    docker-compose down --volumes --remove-orphans

#Setup - Custom No-Frills Version (Lightweight)

This is a quick, simple & less memory-intensive setup of Airflow that works on a LocalExecutor.

#Setup

Airflow Setup with Docker, customized

#Execution

  1. Stop and delete containers, delete volumes with database data, & downloaded images (from the previous setup): docker-compose down --volumes --rmi all

or docker-compose down --volumes --remove-orphans

Or, if you need to clear your system of any pre-cached Docker issues: docker system prune

Also, empty the airflow logs directory.

  1. Build the image (only first-time, or when there's any change in the Dockerfile): Takes ~5-10 mins for the first-time shell docker-compose build or (for legacy versions) shell docker build .

  2. Kick up the all the services from the container (no need to specially initialize): shell docker-compose -f docker-compose-nofrills.yml up

  3. In another terminal, run docker ps to see which containers are up & running (there should be 3, matching with the services in your docker-compose file).

  4. Login to Airflow web UI on localhost:8080 with creds: admin/admin (explicit creation of admin user was required)

  5. Run your DAG on the Web Console.

  6. On finishing your run or to shut down the container/s: shell docker-compose down

#Setup - Taken from DE Zoomcamp 2.3.4 - Optional: Lightweight Local Setup for Airflow

Use the docker-compose_2.3.4.yaml file (and rename it to docker-compose.yaml). Don't forget to replace the variables GCP_PROJECT_ID and GCP_GCS_BUCKET.

#Future Enhancements

#References

For more info, check out these official docs: