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The KubernetesPodOperator handles communicating XCom values differently than other operators. The basics are described in the operator documentation under the xcom_push parameter. I’ve written up a more detailed example that expands on that documentation. An Airflow task instance described by the KubernetesPodOperator can write a dict to the file /airflow/xcom/return.json (always the same file) that […]
This article and code is applicable to Airflow 1.10.13. Hopefully the REST API will mature as Airflow is developed further, and the authentication methods will be easier. The experimental REST API does not use the Airflow role-based users. Instead, it currently requires a SQLAlchemy models.User object whose data is saved in the database. The code […]
KubernetesExecutor The KubernetesExecutor sets up Airflow to run on a Kubernetes cluster. This executor runs task instances in pods created from the same Airflow Docker image used by the KubernetesExecutor itself, unless configured otherwise (more on that at the end). Getting Airflow deployed with the KubernetesExecutor to a cluster is not a trivial task. I […]