Setup airflow in linux

prerequisite: python3 should be installed on your ubuntu/Mac machine.

1. Setup the environment.

• ?create a directory
• ??mkdir airflow
• ??cd airflow/
• ??I am setting env here in this folder.
• ??python3 -m venv .
• ??Activate the environment.
• ??source bin/activate

2.????Install apache-airflow using the below command.

• sudo pip3 install apache-airflow

3.????.Setup backend DB using below command; this command will setup SQLlite DB.

• ?airflow db init

4.????Now lets bring up the web url to access the airflow

• ?airflow.cfg file contains the port number to access the weburl.
• You can change the port number in the line number 433 of this file airflow.cfg, I have given port 8085 since my port 8080 is used by some other application.

• Lets bring up the webserver GUI by running the below command, -D is to run in detached mode.
• airflow webserver -p 8085 -D
• Now our GUI should be up and running, try accessing the airflow GUI on the below url, use the userid and password created in the step 5.

https://localhost:8085/home

5.????Create userid and password for the GUI.

airflow users create --role Admin --username admin --password admin --email XXX@gmail.com --firstname fname --lastname lname

6. Login with admin user id and password.