Data Engineering

Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow in practice - DAGs as code, scheduling semantics and the data interval, retries and SLAs, backfills, and when an orchestrator earns its place over a cron job.

Read the Apache Airflow guide

Where Apache Airflow sits

How this component relates to the rest of the stack. Items without a link are not covered here yet.

Depends on

Must be present for this to run

Linux

Deployed with

Commonly run alongside

Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
Apache Spark

Apache Airflow release support

1 supported

Release	Latest	Released	End of life	Status
`3.3`	`3.3.2`	Jul 2026	not published	Supported
`3.2`	`3.2.2`	Apr 2026	Jul 2026	End of life
`3.1`	`3.1.8`	Sept 2025	Apr 2026	End of life
`3.0`	`3.0.6`	Apr 2025	Sept 2025	End of life
`2`	`2.11.2`	Dec 2020	Apr 2026	End of life

Data as of 2026-10-01 from endoflife.date. Refresh with node scripts/fetch-versions.mjs.