An example of job scheduling in Apache Airflow

airflow_example.py

# import libraries
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from airflow import DAG
from airflow.operators.python_operator import PythonOperator
from airflow.operators.bash_operator import BashOperator

# the default parameters for each operation/task
default_args = {
  'owner': 'big_data_guy',
  'depends_on_past': False,
  'start_date': datetime(2020, 1, 1),
  'email': ['big_data_guy@example.com'],
  'email_on_failure': True,
  'retries': 42,
  'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=5),
  'sla': timedelta(hours=48)
}

# intialize the DAG
dag = DAG(
  'airflow_example',
  default_args=default_args,
  description='A simple example of Apache Airflow',
  schedule_interval=timedelta(days=1),
}

# Define custom operators
def api_web_crawler(config):
  # retrieve data from an API endpoint
  
def hdfs_storage(config):
  # Store the data to HDFS

config = get_config()
  
# Listing the operators
op1 = BashOperator(task_id='print_date', bash_command='date', dag=dag)
op2 = BashOperator(task_id='introduction', 
                   bash_command='echo Executing Airflow Big Data example', 
                   dag=dag)
op3 = PythonOperator(task_id='api_web', 
                     python_callable=api_web_crawler, 
                     op_kwargs={'config': config}, 
                     dag=dag)
op4 = PythonOperator(task_id='hdfs_storage', 
                     python_callable=hdfs_storage, 
                     op_kwargs={'config': config}, 
                     dag=dag)
  
# Setup the depedencies
op1 >> op2 >> op3 >> op4