Executor¶
Executors are the mechanism by which task instances get run.
Airflow has support for various executors. Current used is determined by the executor option in the [core]
section of the configuration file. This option should contain the name executor e.g. KubernetesExecutor
if it is a core executor. If it is to load your own executor, then you should specify the
full path to the module e.g. my_acme_company.executors.MyCustomExecutor.
Note
For more information on setting the configuration, see Setting Configuration Options.
If you want to check which executor is currently set, you can use airflow config get-value core executor command as in
the example below.
$ airflow config get-value core executor
SequentialExecutor