airflow-tutorial

# Airflow tutorial

This tutorial is loosely based on the Airflow tutorial in the [official documentation](https://pythonhosted.org/airflow/tutorial.html).
It will walk you through the basics of setting up Airflow and creating an Airflow workflow.
This tutorial was published on the blog of [GoDataDriven](https://blog.godatadriven.com/practical-airflow-tutorial).


## 1. Setup

You can skip this section if Airflow is already set up.
Make sure that you can run airflow commands, know where to put your DAGs and have access to the web UI.


### Install Airflow

Airflow is installable with `pip` via a simple `pip install apache-airflow`.
Either use a separate python virtual environment or install it in your default python environment.

To use the conda virtual environment as defined in `environment.yml` in this git-repo:

* Install [miniconda](http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html).
* Make sure that conda is on your path:

```{bash}
$ which conda
~/miniconda2/bin/conda
```

* Create the vir