Why ecFlow rather than Airflow?

[Mo-Dabao]

Are there any specific tasks that only ecFlow can do?

[avi369]

ecflow is a workflow manager for managing thousands of tasks in real time. Airflow is more web based ecflow only works on linux and Macos. See: https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/ECFLOW/ecflow+home for more details. Its used by ECMWF and many other meteorological centers around the world, but it it is quite general purpose. I use it to build installing software, and syncing with github. Ta, Avi

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[iainrussell]

Hello,

Just to add to what Avi said, we looked at different packages in 2019, and found that there are many similarities between them, but ecFlow still provided us with more flexibilities in certain areas, e.g. in the richness of trigger expressions. Its GUI is also extremely fully-featured, but it is a desktop application (Linux and macOS), not a web application. This is good for us, but maybe not ideal for everyone.
 
In the end, if your workflows are not very complicated, then probably any workflow manager would be ok. We develop and use ecFlow because it has been designed with our needs in mind (ECMWF, our Member and Co-operating States and other customers). You will probably only understand the limitations of each system by trying them.
 
Best regards,
Iain

[Mo-Dabao]

Thanks for the explaination.

It seems that Airflow is more friendly for a python user.

I'll fiddled with ecFlow later.