Administration Guide: Index

Welcome to the Apache Airflow Administration Guide. This comprehensive guide provides detailed information for system administrators responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining Apache Airflow instances.

Core Administration Areas

This section covers the essential aspects of administering Airflow:

• Configuring Airflow

  Learn how to customize Airflow's behavior through the airflow.cfg file and environment variables. This includes settings for webserver, scheduler, database, and more.

• Managing Connections

  Understand how to configure and manage connections to external systems and services, which Airflow uses to interact with databases, cloud providers, and other APIs.

• Security

  Explore Airflow's security features, including authentication, authorization, secrets management, and best practices for securing your Airflow deployment.

• Monitoring

  Discover various methods for monitoring your Airflow instance, including essential metrics, logging best practices, and integration with external monitoring tools.

• Performance Tuning

  Optimize your Airflow deployment for better performance, scalability, and resource utilization. This covers scheduler tuning, worker configurations, and database optimization.

Deployment Strategies

Explore different approaches to deploying and managing Airflow in various environments:

• Deploying with Docker

  Guidance on setting up and running Airflow using Docker and Docker Compose for development and production environments.

• Kubernetes Deployment

  (Link to future content) Learn how to deploy Airflow on Kubernetes for robust and scalable orchestration.

• Cloud Provider Deployments

  (Link to future content) Specific considerations and best practices for deploying Airflow on AWS, GCP, Azure, and other cloud platforms.

Advanced Topics

Dive deeper into specific administrative tasks and concepts:

• Upgrading Airflow

  Steps and considerations for upgrading your Airflow instance to the latest stable version.

• Backup and Restore

  Strategies and procedures for backing up and restoring your Airflow metadata database and DAGs.

• High Availability

  Designing and implementing a highly available Airflow setup to ensure continuous operation.