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Astro features

Astro offers a suite of first-class features that make it easy to author, run, and monitor Airflow DAGs.

Enhanced Developer Productivity​

  • Astro API: Standardize and simplify data exchange, accelerate development, and better leverage third-party services. See Astro API.

  • GitHub Integration: Enforce DevOps best practices directly from the Astro UI, eliminating manual setup. See Astro GitHub integration.

  • Astro CLI: Install, run, and test Airflow from your command line in under five minutes. See Astro CLI.

  • Branch-Based Deploys: Create isolated development environments to run, test, and deploy your DAGs. See Preview Deployment templates.

  • Registry: Discover over 1,500 integrations and DAG templates to accelerate workflow development. See Astronomer Registry.

  • dbt Deploys: Unify the management and deployment of dbt and Airflow on Astro. See dbt Deploys.

Elastic Infrastructure at Scale and Increased Operational Efficiency​

  • Connection Management: Set up Airflow connections in one central location with our out-of-the-box, native solution. See Create connections in Astro.

  • Dynamic Workers: Automatically adjust the number of worker nodes based on workload fluctuations.

  • Scale-to-Zero Deployment: Schedule zero-cost downtime for development Deployment savings. See Hibernate a development Deployment.

  • High Availability: Ensure the dependable delivery of mission-critical data pipelines with high availability schedulers. See Enable high availability.

  • In-Place Upgrades: Update to the latest Airflow version without costly downtime or a lengthy migration process.

  • Deployment Rollbacks: Roll back your Airflow Deployments on Astro to any prior code deploy. See Deploy history and rollbacks.

  • CI/CD: Automate reliable code deployment, enforce reviews, promote code across environments, and ensure testing. Seamlessly integrated with your favorite CI/CD tools. See Enforce CI/CD deploys.

  • Astro Terraform Provider: Automate the management and scaling of Airflow environments with Terraform. See Astro Terraform Provider.

  • Data-Centric Alerting: Configure alerts based on DAG run and task states, receiving real-time notifications for proactive monitoring. See Astro Alerts.

  • Organizational Dashboards: Get actionable insight into real-time platform data for streamlined decision-making. See Organization dashboards.

  • Cross Deployment Visibility + Health: Gain visibility of your DAGs and metadata across Deployments. See Astro Observe

  • Lineage: Visualize task relationships and track data movement within workflows, including data movement in external systems. See Data lineage.

  • Universal Metrics Export: Export detailed metrics from your Airflow Deployments to Prometheus. See Export metrics.

Robust Enterprise-Grade Security​

  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Granular role-based access control spanning Workspaces, Teams, and Deployments. See Astro user permissions reference.

  • Customer Managed Workload Identity: Securely authorize data services from Airflow on Astro, mitigating data exposure. See Authorize Deployments to cloud resources.

  • Custom Deployment Roles: Ensure your data remains secure with enterprise-level security features. See Customize Deployment roles.

  • Private Networking: Establish secure connections by VPC peering directly with your private networks. See Create network connections between Astro and external resources.

  • Secrets Management: Automate secret management across Airflow deployments, ensuring a unified interface for seamless handling of secrets. See Secrets management.

  • Encryption: Automatically encrypts all data, both at rest and in transit, including databases, file systems, and network transmissions. See Data protection.

  • Compliance Readiness: Meet SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS security standards compliance.

Committer-led Support​

  • 24x7x365 Support: Access to the world's leading Airflow experts and committers. See Submit a support request.

  • Education, Enablement, and Certification: Build Airflow expertise across your organization with diverse training and certification options. See Astronomer Academy.

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