djjohns/containerized_airflow

Airflow in a docker container

containerized_airflow

Airflow in a docker container by following the instructions outlined in Airflow Docker image extension quickstart and Running Airflow in Docker how to guide.

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OVERVEIW:

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This repo should only be used to jump start a development enviornment or as a training method to become more familar with writing DAGs in Airflow.

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Initializing Environment

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Before starting Airflow for the first time, you need to prepare your environment, i.e. create the necessary files, directories and initialize the database.

• Create a .env file in the same directory as the compose.yaml file to add the Airflow specific Docker compose enviornmental variables.

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Initialize the database

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On all operating systems, you need to run database migrations and create the first user account. To do this, run.

docker compose up airflow-init

After initialization is complete, you should see a message like this:

airflow-init_1       | Upgrades done
airflow-init_1       | Admin user airflow created
airflow-init_1       | 2.6.0
start_airflow-init_1 exited with code 0

The account created has the login airflow and the password airflow

Running Airflow

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Now you can start all services:

docker compose up

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