Installation of Apache Airflow (The safe way)
As in the documentation of apache-airflow, they provided a lot of ways of installation on different OS but when it comes to installing it to your machine, you encounter many errors. So, In this blog, I am going to share my few installation processes and their files, which I found very useful and easy.
Use "virtualenv" to do this task (highly recommended)
As the process of installation involves many lib and modules with different versions sometimes, for this reason, we should use virtualenv.
Install with PyPI:-
This should be the first way to install Airflow on your machine. Use pip commands for this process.
1. pip install "apache-airflow[celery,postgres]==2.5.0" --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-2.5.0/constraints-3.7.txt"
2. airflow db init
3. airflow standalone
above codes will do all the required things automatically, if got any error then checkout StackOverflow or any other community to get help.
Install with Docker:-
In this process of installation, we need some files such as reuirements.txt, Dockerfile, and docker-compose.yaml
which includes all configurations like DB, ports etc.
You should have the Docker desktop application on your machine to get started further.
Here, I am attaching files that I had modified slightly for my use, but you can add more according to your requirements.
Below is the docker-compose.yaml
file which you should copy but better if you look into the official yaml file because I've removed a few things from inside which aren't of my use.
# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
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#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
# specific language governing permissions and limitations
# under the License.
#
# Basic Airflow cluster configuration for CeleryExecutor with Redis and PostgreSQL.
#
# WARNING: This configuration is for local development. Do not use it in a production deployment.
#
# This configuration supports basic configuration using environment variables or an .env file
# The following variables are supported:
#
# AIRFLOW_IMAGE_NAME - Docker image name used to run Airflow.
# Default: apache/airflow:2.5.0
# AIRFLOW_UID - User ID in Airflow containers
# Default: 50000
# Those configurations are useful mostly in case of standalone testing/running Airflow in test/try-out mode
#
# _AIRFLOW_WWW_USER_USERNAME - Username for the administrator account (if requested).
# Default: airflow
# _AIRFLOW_WWW_USER_PASSWORD - Password for the administrator account (if requested).
# Default: airflow
# _PIP_ADDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS - Additional PIP requirements to add when starting all containers.
# Default: ''
#
# Feel free to modify this file to suit your needs.
---
version: '3.11'
x-airflow-common:
&airflow-common
# In order to add custom dependencies or upgrade provider packages you can use your extended image.
# Comment the image line, place your Dockerfile in the directory where you placed the docker-compose.yaml
# and uncomment the "build" line below, Then run `docker-compose build` to build the images.
image: ${AIRFLOW_IMAGE_NAME:-apache/airflow:2.5.0}
# build: .
environment:
&airflow-common-env
AIRFLOW__CORE__EXECUTOR: CeleryExecutor
AIRFLOW__DATABASE__SQL_ALCHEMY_CONN: postgresql+psycopg2://airflow:airflow@postgres/airflow
# For backward compatibility, with Airflow <2.3
AIRFLOW__CORE__SQL_ALCHEMY_CONN: postgresql+psycopg2://airflow:airflow@postgres/airflow
AIRFLOW__CELERY__RESULT_BACKEND: db+postgresql://airflow:airflow@postgres/airflow
AIRFLOW__CELERY__BROKER_URL: redis://:@redis:6379/0
AIRFLOW__CORE__FERNET_KEY: ''
AIRFLOW__CORE__DAGS_ARE_PAUSED_AT_CREATION: 'true'
AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES: 'false'
AIRFLOW__API__AUTH_BACKENDS: 'airflow.api.auth.backend.basic_auth'
_PIP_ADDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS: ${_PIP_ADDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS:-}
volumes:
- ./dags:/opt/airflow/dags
- ./logs:/opt/airflow/logs
- ./plugins:/opt/airflow/plugins
user: "${AIRFLOW_UID:-50000}:0"
depends_on:
&airflow-common-depends-on
redis:
condition: service_healthy
postgres:
condition: service_healthy
services:
postgres:
image: postgres:13
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: airflow
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: airflow
POSTGRES_DB: airflow
volumes:
- postgres-db-volume:/var/lib/postgresql/data
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "pg_isready", "-U", "airflow"]
interval: 5s
retries: 5
restart: always
redis:
image: redis:latest
expose:
- 6379
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "redis-cli", "ping"]
interval: 5s
timeout: 30s
retries: 50
restart: always
airflow-webserver:
<<: *airflow-common
command: webserver
ports:
- "8080:8080"
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "curl", "--fail", "http://localhost:8080/health"]
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 5
restart: always
depends_on:
<<: *airflow-common-depends-on
airflow-init:
condition: service_completed_successfully
airflow-scheduler:
<<: *airflow-common
command: scheduler
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", 'airflow jobs check --job-type SchedulerJob --hostname "$${HOSTNAME}"']
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 5
restart: always
depends_on:
<<: *airflow-common-depends-on
airflow-init:
condition: service_completed_successfully
airflow-triggerer:
<<: *airflow-common
command: triggerer
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", 'airflow jobs check --job-type TriggererJob --hostname "$${HOSTNAME}"']
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 5
restart: always
depends_on:
<<: *airflow-common-depends-on
airflow-init:
condition: service_completed_successfully
airflow-init:
<<: *airflow-common
entrypoint: /bin/bash
# yamllint disable rule:line-length
command:
- -c
- |
function ver() {
printf "%04d%04d%04d%04d" $${1//./ }
}
airflow_version=$$(AIRFLOW__LOGGING__LOGGING_LEVEL=INFO && gosu airflow airflow version)
airflow_version_comparable=$$(ver $${airflow_version})
min_airflow_version=2.2.0
min_airflow_version_comparable=$$(ver $${min_airflow_version})
if (( airflow_version_comparable < min_airflow_version_comparable )); then
echo
echo -e "\033[1;31mERROR!!!: Too old Airflow version $${airflow_version}!\e[0m"
echo "The minimum Airflow version supported: $${min_airflow_version}. Only use this or higher!"
echo
exit 1
fi
if [[ -z "${AIRFLOW_UID}" ]]; then
echo
echo -e "\033[1;33mWARNING!!!: AIRFLOW_UID not set!\e[0m"
echo "If you are on Linux, you SHOULD follow the instructions below to set "
echo "AIRFLOW_UID environment variable, otherwise files will be owned by root."
echo "For other operating systems you can get rid of the warning with manually created .env file:"
echo " See: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/howto/docker-compose/index.html#setting-the-right-airflow-user"
echo
fi
one_meg=1048576
mem_available=$$(($$(getconf _PHYS_PAGES) * $$(getconf PAGE_SIZE) / one_meg))
cpus_available=$$(grep -cE 'cpu[0-9]+' /proc/stat)
disk_available=$$(df / | tail -1 | awk '{print $$4}')
warning_resources="false"
if (( mem_available < 4000 )) ; then
echo
echo -e "\033[1;33mWARNING!!!: Not enough memory available for Docker.\e[0m"
echo "At least 4GB of memory required. You have $$(numfmt --to iec $$((mem_available * one_meg)))"
echo
warning_resources="true"
fi
if (( cpus_available < 2 )); then
echo
echo -e "\033[1;33mWARNING!!!: Not enough CPUS available for Docker.\e[0m"
echo "At least 2 CPUs recommended. You have $${cpus_available}"
echo
warning_resources="true"
fi
if (( disk_available < one_meg * 10 )); then
echo
echo -e "\033[1;33mWARNING!!!: Not enough Disk space available for Docker.\e[0m"
echo "At least 10 GBs recommended. You have $$(numfmt --to iec $$((disk_available * 1024 )))"
echo
warning_resources="true"
fi
if [[ $${warning_resources} == "true" ]]; then
echo
echo -e "\033[1;33mWARNING!!!: You have not enough resources to run Airflow (see above)!\e[0m"
echo "Please follow the instructions to increase amount of resources available:"
echo " https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/howto/docker-compose/index.html#before-you-begin"
echo
fi
mkdir -p /sources/logs /sources/dags /sources/plugins
chown -R "${AIRFLOW_UID}:0" /sources/{logs,dags,plugins}
exec /entrypoint airflow version
# yamllint enable rule:line-length
environment:
<<: *airflow-common-env
_AIRFLOW_DB_UPGRADE: 'true'
_AIRFLOW_WWW_USER_CREATE: 'true'
_AIRFLOW_WWW_USER_USERNAME: ${_AIRFLOW_WWW_USER_USERNAME:-airflow}
_AIRFLOW_WWW_USER_PASSWORD: ${_AIRFLOW_WWW_USER_PASSWORD:-airflow}
_PIP_ADDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS: ''
user: "0:0"
volumes:
- .:/sources
airflow-cli:
<<: *airflow-common
profiles:
- debug
environment:
<<: *airflow-common-env
CONNECTION_CHECK_MAX_COUNT: "0"
# Workaround for entrypoint issue. See: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/16252
command:
- bash
- -c
- airflow
# You can enable flower by adding "--profile flower" option e.g. docker-compose --profile flower up
# or by explicitly targeted on the command line e.g. docker-compose up flower.
# See: https://docs.docker.com/compose/profiles/
flower:
<<: *airflow-common
command: celery flower
profiles:
- flower
ports:
- "5555:5555"
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "curl", "--fail", "http://localhost:5555/"]
interval: 10s
timeout: 10s
retries: 5
restart: always
depends_on:
<<: *airflow-common-depends-on
airflow-init:
condition: service_completed_successfully
Below is the `Dockerfile`:-
FROM apache/airflow:2.5.0
COPY requirements.txt /requirements.txt
RUN pip install --user --upgrade pip
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --user -r /requirements.txt
Below are the contents of requirements.txt
file which can vary, so use yours:-
scikit-learn==0.24.2
matplotlib==3.3.3
mysql-connector-python==8.0.20
psycopg2-binary==2.8.5
pandas==1.0.4
Make a `.env` file and add the following line to the .env file:
AIRFLOW_UID=50000
make a virtualenv and activate it, after activating your virtualenv and putting the above files in the same directory of the installation, you should execute the below codes in your terminal.
docker-compose up airflow-init
then go to your localhost:8080 to see the page.
You can execute "docker-compose up -d" the next time if you want to run airflow in localhost.
You can also start the airflow-webserver container in your Docker desktop directly.