Airflow Sandbox Template

Airflow basic and general functionalities to get started on airflow

General documentation

https://airflow.apache.org/docs/

Instalation

Cloning this repo

You can use this repo to build you own airflow application just follow the next steps:

git clone git@github.com:DLesmes/airflow_sandbox_template.git

cd airflow_sandbox_template

curl -LfO 'https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/2.5.3/docker-compose.yaml'

There is a more recent version 2.6.0

• If you do not want to see the example DAG's, you can set this tag as false, it is on line 65 of the docker-compose.yaml file

  AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES: 'false'
  

Start Docker, you must to have it installed previously

docker compose up

From scratch

Just follow the next steps on your local console:

mkdir my_airflow_project
cd my_airflow_project
mkdir -p ./dags ./logs ./plugins ./scripts
echo -e "AIRFLOW_UID=$(id -u)" > .env

curl -LfO 'https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/2.5.3/docker-compose.yaml'

There is a more recent version 2.6.0

• If you do not want to see the example DAG's, you can set this tag as false, it is on line 65 of the docker-compose.yaml file

  AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES: 'false'
  

Start Docker, you must to have it instaled previously

docker compose up

General Folder Distribution / Three

airflow/
│
├── dags/
│   ├── example_dag.py
│   └── ...
│
├── plugins/
│   ├── my_plugin.py
│   └── ...
│
├── config/
│   ├── airflow.cfg
│   └── ...
│
├── logs/
│   ├── dag_processing.log
│   ├── scheduler.log
│   └── ...
│
├── scripts/
│   ├── airflow
│   ├── airflow.cfg
│   └── ...
│
├── tests/
│   ├── test_example_dag.py
│   ├── test_my_plugin.py
│   └── ...
│
└── README.md

In this diagram, the main airflow/ directory contains several subdirectories, including

• dags/ which holds the DAG definition files,
• plugins/ which holds any custom plugins used in the DAGs,
• config/ which holds the Airflow configuration files,
• logs/ which holds the Airflow logs,
• scripts/ which holds the Airflow command line scripts,
• tests/ which holds the test files for the DAGs and plugins, and
• README.md which contains the repository's documentation.