Installing Apache Airflow on MacOS

I’m currently diving a bit deeper into Apache Airflow and want to further my understanding of the system. I chose to install it locally on my Mac because a managed service like Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) on AWS limits how much I can tinker with the system. For anything remotely production-related, I’d still go with the managed service. I used the Airflow: Getting Started documentation to do exactly that, getting started. Now you might wonder: why write this post then? I found that I had some trouble getting things to work on MacOS specifically, so this is for everyone out there who’s trying to do this on a Mac. ...

2024-08-16 · 4 min · Maurice Borgmeier