Running Airflow with systemd

Airflow can integrate with systemd based systems. This makes watching your daemons easy as systemd can take care of restarting a daemon on failure. In the scripts/systemd directory you can find unit files that have been tested on Redhat based systems. You can copy those to /usr/lib/systemd/system. It is assumed that Airflow will run under airflow:airflow. If not (or if you are running on a non Redhat based system) you probably need to adjust the unit files.

Environment configuration is picked up from /etc/sysconfig/airflow. An example file is supplied. Make sure to specify the SCHEDULER_RUNS variable in this file when you run the scheduler. You can also define here, for example, AIRFLOW_HOME or AIRFLOW_CONFIG.