Apache Airflow Orchestration

This one gives Claude the context to help you build and debug Apache Airflow DAGs without constantly checking docs. It covers the TaskFlow API decorator syntax (the modern way to write pipelines), common operators like BashOperator and BranchPythonOperator, and sensors for waiting on files or conditions. The examples show real patterns like XCom for passing data between tasks, dynamic templating with execution dates, and branching logic. Useful if you're orchestrating data pipelines and need quick answers on retry configs, dependency chains, or why your tasks aren't triggering. The Docker setup instructions are solid for getting a local instance running fast.

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Apache Airflow Orchestration

Skill by ara.so — Data Skills collection.

Apache Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows. It allows you to define workflows as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) in Python code, making them maintainable, versionable, testable, and collaborative.

Installation

Using pip

# Install Airflow with constraints for your Python version
AIRFLOW_VERSION=3.2.0
PYTHON_VERSION="$(python --version | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -d "." -f 1-2)"
CONSTRAINT_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-${AIRFLOW_VERSION}/constraints-${PYTHON_VERSION}.txt"

pip install "apache-airflow==${AIRFLOW_VERSION}" --constraint "${CONSTRAINT_URL}"

Using Docker (Recommended for Development)

# Download docker-compose.yaml
curl -LfO 'https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/docker-compose.yaml'

# Create required directories
mkdir -p ./dags ./logs ./plugins ./config

# Set the Airflow user
echo -e "AIRFLOW_UID=$(id -u)" > .env

# Initialize the database
docker compose up airflow-init

# Start Airflow
docker compose up

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Repository: github.com/aradotso/data-skills
Category: Automation & Workflows
First seen: Jul 14, 2026

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