airflow.md

airflow needs a home, ~/airflow is the default

export AIRFLOW_HOME=~/airflow

install from pypi using pip

pip install apache-airflow

initialize the database

airflow initdb

start the web server, default port is 8080

airflow webserver -p 8080

start the scheduler

airflow scheduler

visit localhost:8080 in the browser and enable the example dag in the home page