Introducing
Apache Airflow 2.0
The future of workflow orchestration is here.
What's in Airflow 2.0?
Check out our Airflow 2.0 video series for a walkthrough of all of the great new features.
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Apache Airflow just got new superpowers.
A New, Highly Available SchedulerNew
Expect faster performance with near-zero task latency. Launch Scheduler replicas to increase task throughput and ensure high-availability. Read more
Full REST APINew
Build programmatic services around your Airflow environment with Airflow's new API, now featuring a robust permissions framework. Airflow Docs
Smart SensorsNew
Fit Airflow to event-driven paradigms with resource-saving sensors that operate as single, long-running tasks and don't take up a worker slot. Airflow Docs
Task Flow APINew
Pass information between tasks with clean, efficient code that's abstracted from the task dependency layer. Includes support for custom XCom backends. Airflow Docs
Task GroupsNew
Replace SubDAGs with a new way to group tasks in the Airflow UI. Task Groups don't affect task execution behavior and do not limit parallelism. Airflow Docs
Simplified KubernetesExecutorNew
Make the most of the
pod_overrideparameter for easy 1:1 overrides and the new yamlpod_template_file, which replaces configs set in airflow.cfg. Airflow DocsIndependent ProvidersNew
Pull the latest version of any Airflow Provider at anytime, or follow an easy contribution process to build your own and install it as a Python package. Airflow Docs
UI/UX ImprovementsNew
Embrace the a new look for the Airflow UI, now boasting a clean, modern color palette and an auto-refresh toggle in the Graph view. Airflow Docs
Read our Introducing Airflow 2.0 blog post and the official Apache Airflow 2.0 release announcement.
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Apache Airflow Core Principles
Airflow is built on a set of core ideals that allow you to leverage the most popular open source workflow orchestrator on the market while maintaining enterprise-ready flexibility and reliability.
Flexible
Fully programmatic workflow authoring allows you you to maintain full control of the logic you wish to execute.
Extensible
Leverage a robust ecosystem of open source integrations to connect natively to any third party datastore or API.
Open Source
Get the optionality of an open-source codebase while tapping into a buzzing and action-packed community.
Scalable
Scale your Airflow environment to infinity with a modular and highly-available architecture across a variety of execution frameworks.
Secure
Integrate with your internal authentication systems and secrets managers for an platform ops experience that your security team will love.
Modular
Plug into your internal logging and monitoring systems to keep all of the metrics you care about in one place.
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