In this post I will show you how to create a fully operational environment in 5 minutes, which will include:

• Apache Airflow WebServer
• Apache Airflow Worker
• Apache Airflow Scheduler
• Flower – is a web based tool for monitoring and administrating Celery clusters
• Redis – is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker.

docker-compose.yml script

Create the docker-compose.yml file and paste the script below. Then run the docker-compos up -d command.

(The script below was taken from the site Puckel)

version: '2.1'
services:
    redis:
        image: 'redis:5.0.5'
        # command: redis-server --requirepass redispass

    postgres:
        image: postgres:9.6
        environment:
            - POSTGRES_USER=airflow
            - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=airflow
            - POSTGRES_DB=airflow
        # Uncomment these lines to persist data on the local filesystem.
        #     - PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
        # volumes:
        #     - ./pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata

    webserver:
        image: puckel/docker-airflow:1.10.4
        restart: always
        depends_on:
            - postgres
            - redis
        environment:
            - LOAD_EX=n
            - FERNET_KEY=46BKJoQYlPPOexq0OhDZnIlNepKFf87WFwLbfzqDDho=
            - EXECUTOR=Celery
            # - POSTGRES_USER=airflow
            # - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=airflow
            # - POSTGRES_DB=airflow
            # - REDIS_PASSWORD=redispass
        volumes:
            - ./dags:/usr/local/airflow/dags
            # Uncomment to include custom plugins
            # - ./plugins:/usr/local/airflow/plugins
        ports:
            - "8080:8080"
        command: webserver
        healthcheck:
            test: ["CMD-SHELL", "[ -f /usr/local/airflow/airflow-webserver.pid ]"]
            interval: 30s
            timeout: 30s
            retries: 3

    flower:
        image: puckel/docker-airflow:1.10.4
        restart: always
        depends_on:
            - redis
        environment:
            - EXECUTOR=Celery
            # - REDIS_PASSWORD=redispass
        ports:
            - "5555:5555"
        command: flower

    scheduler:
        image: puckel/docker-airflow:1.10.4
        restart: always
        depends_on:
            - webserver
        volumes:
            - ./dags:/usr/local/airflow/dags
            # Uncomment to include custom plugins
            # - ./plugins:/usr/local/airflow/plugins
        environment:
            - LOAD_EX=n
            - FERNET_KEY=46BKJoQYlPPOexq0OhDZnIlNepKFf87WFwLbfzqDDho=
            - EXECUTOR=Celery
            # - POSTGRES_USER=airflow
            # - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=airflow
            # - POSTGRES_DB=airflow
            # - REDIS_PASSWORD=redispass
        command: scheduler

    worker:
        image: puckel/docker-airflow:1.10.4
        restart: always
        depends_on:
            - scheduler
        volumes:
            - ./dags:/usr/local/airflow/dags
            # Uncomment to include custom plugins
            # - ./plugins:/usr/local/airflow/plugins
        environment:
            - FERNET_KEY=46BKJoQYlPPOexq0OhDZnIlNepKFf87WFwLbfzqDDho=
            - EXECUTOR=Celery
            # - POSTGRES_USER=airflow
            # - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=airflow
            # - POSTGRES_DB=airflow
            # - REDIS_PASSWORD=redispass
        command: worker

Check the container status

Before navigating to pages with the user interface, check that all containers are in “UP” status. To do this, use the command:

docker-compose ps
           Name                         Command                  State                         Ports                   
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
airflow-docker_flower_1      /entrypoint.sh flower            Up             0.0.0.0:5555->5555/tcp, 8080/tcp, 8793/tcp
airflow-docker_postgres_1    docker-entrypoint.sh postgres    Up             5432/tcp                                  
airflow-docker_redis_1       docker-entrypoint.sh redis ...   Up             6379/tcp                                  
airflow-docker_scheduler_1   /entrypoint.sh scheduler         Up             5555/tcp, 8080/tcp, 8793/tcp              
airflow-docker_webserver_1   /entrypoint.sh webserver         Up (healthy)   5555/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp, 8793/tcp
airflow-docker_worker_1      /entrypoint.sh worker            Up             5555/tcp, 8080/tcp, 8793/tcp          

User Interface

When all containers are running, we can open in turn:

• localhost:8080 – Apache Airflow UI
• localhost:5555 – Flower UI

Test DAG

The “dags” directory has been created in the directory where we ran the dokcer-compose.yml file. Let’s create our test DAG in it. For this purpose. I will direct you to my other post, where I described exactly how to do it.

In short: create a test dag (python file) in the “dags” directory. It will automatically appear in Airflow UI. Then just run it. In addition, check monitoring from the Flower UI level.

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