Airflow on top of Kubernetes

There are couple approaches to deploy your Airflow:

1. Airflow as a docker container.

1 - buid the image:

$ docker build -f ci/docker/Dockerfile -t airflow-sandbox .

2 - run the container:

$ docker run -e AIRFLOW__CORE__SQL_ALCHEMY_CONN='postgresql://airflow:airflow_password@host.docker.internal/airflow' \
  -e DB_PORT=5432 \
  -e DB_HOST=host.docker.internal -d \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  --rm --name airflow_container \
  airflow-sandbox

3 - launch particular DAG, e.g. my_dag:

$ docker exec airflow_container airflow trigger_dag my_dag

To check metrics exposed to Prometheus:

Just go to default url in your browser - your_host:8080/admin/metrics

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2. Airflow in k8s.

Make sure you have registered your local docker registry - e.g. HERE

Also you need to install and configure minikube and kubectl on your machine.

1 - Build a docker image as it's describe above and push it to your registry e.g docker push localhost:5000/airflow-sandbox:0.1.0

2 - Make sure you have your cluster ready, e.g. kubectl get all

3 - Create deployment and service for DB (I'm using PostgreSQL):

$ kubectl create -f ci/kube/postgres.yml

4 - Create deployment and service for airflow (Pod is creating from your airflow docker image):

$ kubectl create -f ci/kube/airflow.yml

Now you should see that pods, services, deployments... are successfully running

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3. Deploy by k8s Airflow Operator.

Please check this Repo for details.

To deploy airflow-operator you need to install go and kubebuilder on your machine.

Get Started:

1 - Clone repo:

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/k8s.io
$ cd $GOPATH/src/k8s.io
$ git clone git@github.com:GoogleCloudPlatform/airflow-operator.git

2 - Setup your cluster to understand Application resources:

$ make install

3 - Build manager binary:

$ make manager

4 - Run against the configured Kubernetes cluster in ~/.kube/config

$ make run

5 - Create AirflowBase and AirflowCluster on your cluster

$ kubectl apply -f ci/kube/base.yml

wait before it will be in state running

$ kubectl apply -f ci/kube/cluster.yml

All done. Now you will see that airflow ui, scheduler are running on your kube.

Enjoy!