Running Airflow with upstart

Airflow can integrate with upstart based systems. Upstart automatically starts all airflow services for which you have a corresponding *.conf file in /etc/init upon system boot. On failure, upstart automatically restarts the process (until it reaches re-spawn limit set in a *.conf file).

You can find sample upstart job files in the scripts/upstart directory.

The following assumptions have been used while creating these unit files:

  1. Airflow will run as the following user:group airflow:airflow.

    Change setuid and setgid appropriately in *.conf if airflow runs as a different user or group

  2. These files have been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

    You may have to adjust start on and stop on stanzas to make it work on other upstart systems. Some of the possible options are listed in scripts/upstart/README

Modify *.conf files as needed and copy to /etc/init directory.

You can use initctl to manually start, stop, view status of the airflow process that has been integrated with upstart

initctl airflow-webserver status

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