Why Airflow? & What's new in Airflow 2.3?

Talk: https://odsc.com/speakers/whats-new-in-apache-airflow-2-3/

This session talks about Why to use Apache Airflow & the awesome new features the community has built that were recently released in Apache Airflow 2.3.

Highlights:
- Dynamic Task Mapping
- First-class support for DB Downgrades
- Pruning old DB records (No need of using Maintenance DAGs anymore)
- Building Connections using JSON
- UI Improvements

The talk will also cover the growth of Airflow Community over years and why Airflow is still the defacto tool for Workflow Orchestration.

Transcript

1. Why Airflow? & What's new in Airflow 2.3? Kaxil Naik ODSC 2022
2. Who am I? • Committer & PMC Member of Apache Airflow • Director of Airflow Engineering @ Astronomer @kaxil
3. What is Apache Airflow?
4. A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
5. A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
6. A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
7. A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
8. Example DAG
9. Why Apache Airflow?
10. 2k+ 26.3k 6.8m+ Monthly Downloads GitHub Stars Contributors 23k+ Slack Members The Community
11. Under …
12. Governed by 48 Committers 27 PMC Members Project Management Committee Project Management Committee
13. Integrations And ……
14. 75+ Providers
15. Docker Image docker pull apache/airflow
16. Helm Chart helm repo add apache-airflow https://airflow.apache.org/ helm install my-airflow apache-airflow/airflow
17. Conference & Meetups 13 Local Groups 3 years with min 6k-10k registrants every year
18. Managed Airflow Vendors
19. What’s new in Airflow 2.3?
20. Biggest Airflow Release since 2.0 700+ commits! with 50 new features
21. Dynamic Task Mapping Highlight feature of 2.3 First-class support for common ETL pattern around dynamic tasks Run same set of tasks for N number of files in a bucket, DB records, ML models where N is unpredictable.
22. Dynamic Task Mapping Before After
23. Dynamic Task Mapping
24. Grid View replaces Tree View!!
25. Grid View replaces Tree View!! Better support for Task Groups & Task Mapping Grid lines and hover effects to see which task you are inspecting Show durations of dag runs to quickly see performance changes Paves way for DAG Versioning
26. Create Connection in native JSON format
27. Create Connection in native JSON format
28. Create Connection in native JSON format
29. Create Connection in native JSON format
30. DB downgrades First class support Downgrades to a - Airflow version - or to a specific Alembic revision id
31. DB downgrades First class support
32. Generate SQL for DB upgrade & downgrade Allows DBA to run the DB Migrations ("--show-sql-only" flag)
33. Purge DB history First class support Helps reduce time when running DB Migrations when updating Airflow version Removes need of Maintenance DAGs! ‘--dry-run’ option to print the row counts in the tables to be cleaned Backup your DB before running this!
34. LocalKubernetesExecutor Speed, Isolation & Simplicity packed in one! Allows users to simultaneously run a LocalExecutor and KubernetesExecutor. An executor is chosen to run a task based on the task's queue Tasks just calling APIs + Tasks requiring isolation due to dependencies or computation-heavy Slide from Jed’s Airflow’s Summit talk: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/airflowsummit2022/35
35. DAG Processor separation Standalone process for DAG parsing “airflow dag-processor” CLI Command Code Parsing and Callbacks (Sla + DAG’s on_{success,failure}_callbacks) Makes scheduler not run any user code* First step towards multi-tenancy Disabled by default, can be enabled by Images from AIP-43 AIRFLOW__SCHEDULER__STANDALONE_DAG_PROCESSOR=True
36. Events Timetable Run DAGs at arbitrary dates Built-in Timetable Useful for events which can’t be expressed by Cron or Timedelta
37. Smooth Operator
38. Other Minor features Minor but very handy! • A new REST API endpoint (‘/dags’) that lets you bulk-pause/resume DAGs • airflow dags reserialize command to delete serialized dags & reparse them • A new listener plugin API that tracks TaskInstance state changes (used by OpenLineage) • New Trigger Rule: all_skipped • Doc: Single page to check Changelog & Updating Guide -> ‘Release Notes’ • (Experimental) Support for ARM Docker Images
39. Upgrade Now to Airflow 2.3!
40. Thank You @kaxil