Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

Installing Airflow

Installing and running the Apache Airflow single node is quite simple. Follow these steps:

1. Install Python 3.6+ (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
2. From the command console with administrative privileges, run the following commands:

$ mkdir airflow$ cd airflow$ mkdir dags$ mkdir plugins$ pip install apache-airflow

3. Export AIRFLOW_HOME with the following commands based on OS:

• • On Windows, this is done as follows:

$ set AIRFLOW_HOME=<current directory>

• • On macOS or Linux, this is done as follows:

$ export AIRFLOW_HOME=$(pwd)

4. Initialize the database with the following command:

$ airflow initdb

We are now ready to start Airflow. Follow these steps:

1. Start the scheduler:

$ airflow scheduler

2. Start the web ...