Reference for package extras

Here’s the list of all the extra dependencies of Apache Airflow.

The entries with * in the Preinstalled column indicate that those extras (providers) are always pre-installed when Airflow is installed.

Note

You can disable automated installation of the providers with extras when installing Airflow. You need to have INSTALL_PROVIDERS_FROM_SOURCES environment variable to true before running pip install command. Contributors need to set it, if they are installing Airflow locally, and want to develop providers directly via Airflow sources. This variable is automatically set in Breeze development environment. Setting this variable is not needed in editable mode (pip install -e).

Core Airflow extras

These are core airflow extras that extend capabilities of core Airflow. They usually do not install provider packages (with the exception of celery and cncf.kubernetes extras), they just install necessary python dependencies for the provided package.

extra

install command

enables

aiobotocore

pip install 'apache-airflow[aiobotocore]'

Support for asynchronous (deferrable) operators for Amazon integration

async

pip install 'apache-airflow[async]'

Async worker classes for Gunicorn

celery

pip install 'apache-airflow[celery]'

CeleryExecutor (also installs the celery provider package!)

cgroups

pip install 'apache-airflow[cgroups]'

Needed To use CgroupTaskRunner

cncf.kubernetes

pip install 'apache-airflow[cncf.kubernetes]'

Kubernetes Executor (also installs the Kubernetes provider package)

dask

pip install 'apache-airflow[dask]'

DaskExecutor

deprecated_api

pip install 'apache-airflow[deprecated_api]'

Deprecated, experimental API that is replaced with the new REST API

github_enterprise

pip install 'apache-airflow[github_enterprise]'

GitHub Enterprise auth backend

google_auth

pip install 'apache-airflow[google_auth]'

Google auth backend

kerberos

pip install 'apache-airflow[kerberos]'

Kerberos integration for Kerberized services (Hadoop, Presto, Trino)

ldap

pip install 'apache-airflow[ldap]'

LDAP authentication for users

leveldb

pip install 'apache-airflow[leveldb]'

Required for use leveldb extra in google provider

otel

pip install 'apache-airflow[otel]'

Required for OpenTelemetry metrics

pandas

pip install 'apache-airflow[pandas]'

Install Pandas library compatible with Airflow

password

pip install 'apache-airflow[password]'

Password authentication for users

rabbitmq

pip install 'apache-airflow[rabbitmq]'

RabbitMQ support as a Celery backend

sentry

pip install 'apache-airflow[sentry]'

Sentry service for application logging and monitoring

statsd

pip install 'apache-airflow[statsd]'

Needed by StatsD metrics

virtualenv

pip install 'apache-airflow[virtualenv]'

Running python tasks in local virtualenv

Providers extras

These providers extras are simply convenience extras to install provider packages so that you can install the providers with simple command - including provider package and necessary dependencies in single command, which allows PIP to resolve any conflicting dependencies. This is extremely useful for first time installation where you want to repeatably install version of dependencies which are ‘valid’ for both airflow and providers installed.

For example the below command will install:

  • apache-airflow

  • apache-airflow-providers-amazon

  • apache-airflow-providers-google

  • apache-airflow-providers-apache-spark

with a consistent set of dependencies based on constraint files provided by Airflow Community at the time 2.6.3 version was released.

pip install apache-airflow[google,amazon,apache.spark]==2.6.3 \
  --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-2.6.3/constraints-3.7.txt"

Note, that this will install providers in the versions that were released at the time of Airflow 2.6.3 release. You can later upgrade those providers manually if you want to use latest versions of the providers.

Apache Software extras

These are extras that add dependencies needed for integration with other Apache projects (note that apache.atlas and apache.webhdfs do not have their own providers - they only install additional libraries that can be used in custom bash/python providers).

extra

install command

enables

apache.atlas

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.atlas]'

Apache Atlas

apache.beam

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.beam]'

Apache Beam operators & hooks

apache.cassandra

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.cassandra]'

Cassandra related operators & hooks

apache.drill

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.drill]'

Drill related operators & hooks

apache.druid

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.druid]'

Druid related operators & hooks

apache.flink

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.flink]'

Flink related operators & hooks

apache.hdfs

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.hdfs]'

HDFS hooks and operators

apache.hive

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.hive]'

All Hive related operators

apache.impala

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.impala]'

All Impala related operators & hooks

apache.kylin

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.kylin]'

All Kylin related operators & hooks

apache.livy

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.livy]'

All Livy related operators, hooks & sensors

apache.pig

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.pig]'

All Pig related operators & hooks

apache.pinot

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.pinot]'

All Pinot related hooks

apache.spark

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.spark]'

All Spark related operators & hooks

apache.sqoop

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.sqoop]'

All Sqoop related operators & hooks

apache.webhdfs

pip install 'apache-airflow[apache.webhdfs]'

HDFS hooks and operators

External Services extras

These are extras that add dependencies needed for integration with external services - either cloud based or on-premises.

extra

install command

enables

airbyte

pip install 'apache-airflow[airbyte]'

Airbyte hooks and operators

alibaba

pip install 'apache-airflow[alibaba]'

Alibaba Cloud

amazon

pip install 'apache-airflow[amazon]'

Amazon Web Services

asana

pip install 'apache-airflow[asana]'

Asana hooks and operators

atlassian.jira

pip install 'apache-airflow[atlassian.jira]'

Jira hooks and operators

azure

pip install 'apache-airflow[microsoft.azure]'

Microsoft Azure

cloudant

pip install 'apache-airflow[cloudant]'

Cloudant hook

databricks

pip install 'apache-airflow[databricks]'

Databricks hooks and operators

datadog

pip install 'apache-airflow[datadog]'

Datadog hooks and sensors

dbt.cloud

pip install 'apache-airflow[dbt.cloud]'

dbt Cloud hooks and operators

dingding

pip install 'apache-airflow[dingding]'

Dingding hooks and sensors

discord

pip install 'apache-airflow[discord]'

Discord hooks and sensors

facebook

pip install 'apache-airflow[facebook]'

Facebook Social

google

pip install 'apache-airflow[google]'

Google Cloud

hashicorp

pip install 'apache-airflow[hashicorp]'

Hashicorp Services (Vault)

opsgenie

pip install 'apache-airflow[opsgenie]'

OpsGenie hooks and operators

pagerduty

pip install 'apache-airflow[pagerduty]'

Pagerduty hook

plexus

pip install 'apache-airflow[plexus]'

Plexus service of CoreScientific.com AI platform

qubole

pip install 'apache-airflow[qubole]'

Enable QDS (Qubole Data Service) support

salesforce

pip install 'apache-airflow[salesforce]'

Salesforce hook

sendgrid

pip install 'apache-airflow[sendgrid]'

Send email using sendgrid

segment

pip install 'apache-airflow[segment]'

Segment hooks and sensors

slack

pip install 'apache-airflow[slack]'

Slack hooks and operators

snowflake

pip install 'apache-airflow[snowflake]'

Snowflake hooks and operators

tableau

pip install 'apache-airflow[tableau]'

Tableau hooks and operators

tabular

pip install 'apache-airflow[tabular]'

Tabular hooks

telegram

pip install 'apache-airflow[telegram]'

Telegram hooks and operators

vertica

pip install 'apache-airflow[vertica]'

Vertica hook support as an Airflow backend

zendesk

pip install 'apache-airflow[zendesk]'

Zendesk hooks

Locally installed software extras

These are extras that add dependencies needed for integration with other software packages installed usually as part of the deployment of Airflow.

extra

install command

enables

arangodb

pip install 'apache-airflow[arangodb]'

ArangoDB operators, sensors and hook

docker

pip install 'apache-airflow[docker]'

Docker hooks and operators

elasticsearch

pip install 'apache-airflow[elasticsearch]'

Elasticsearch hooks and Log Handler

exasol

pip install 'apache-airflow[exasol]'

Exasol hooks and operators

github

pip install 'apache-airflow[github]'

GitHub operators and hook

influxdb

pip install 'apache-airflow[influxdb]'

Influxdb operators and hook

jenkins

pip install 'apache-airflow[jenkins]'

Jenkins hooks and operators

mongo

pip install 'apache-airflow[mongo]'

Mongo hooks and operators

microsoft.mssql

pip install 'apache-airflow[microsoft.mssql]'

Microsoft SQL Server operators and hook.

mysql

pip install 'apache-airflow[mysql]'

MySQL operators and hook

neo4j

pip install 'apache-airflow[neo4j]'

Neo4j operators and hook

odbc

pip install 'apache-airflow[odbc]'

ODBC data sources including MS SQL Server

openfaas

pip install 'apache-airflow[openfaas]'

OpenFaaS hooks

oracle

pip install 'apache-airflow[oracle]'

Oracle hooks and operators

postgres

pip install 'apache-airflow[postgres]'

PostgreSQL operators and hook

presto

pip install 'apache-airflow[presto]'

All Presto related operators & hooks

redis

pip install 'apache-airflow[redis]'

Redis hooks and sensors

samba

pip install 'apache-airflow[samba]'

Samba hooks and operators

singularity

pip install 'apache-airflow[singularity]'

Singularity container operator

trino

pip install 'apache-airflow[trino]'

All Trino related operators & hooks

Other extras

These are extras that provide support for integration with external systems via some - usually - standard protocols.

extra

install command

enables

Preinstalled

common.sql

pip install 'apache-airflow[common.sql]'

Core SQL Operators

ftp

pip install 'apache-airflow[ftp]'

FTP hooks and operators

grpc

pip install 'apache-airflow[grpc]'

Grpc hooks and operators

http

pip install 'apache-airflow[http]'

HTTP hooks, operators and sensors

imap

pip install 'apache-airflow[imap]'

IMAP hooks and sensors

jdbc

pip install 'apache-airflow[jdbc]'

JDBC hooks and operators

microsoft.psrp

pip install 'apache-airflow[microsoft.psrp]'

PSRP hooks and operators

microsoft.winrm

pip install 'apache-airflow[microsoft.winrm]'

WinRM hooks and operators

papermill

pip install 'apache-airflow[papermill]'

Papermill hooks and operators

sftp

pip install 'apache-airflow[sftp]'

SFTP hooks, operators and sensors

smtp

pip install 'apache-airflow[smtp]'

SMTP hooks and operators

sqlite

pip install 'apache-airflow[sqlite]'

SQLite hooks and operators

ssh

pip install 'apache-airflow[ssh]'

SSH hooks and operators

Bundle extras

These are extras that install one or more extras as a bundle. Note that these extras should only be used for “development” version of Airflow - i.e. when Airflow is installed from sources. Because of the way how bundle extras are constructed they might not work when airflow is installed from ‘PyPI`.

If you want to install Airflow from PyPI with “all” extras (which should basically be never needed - you almost never need all extras from Airflow), you need to list explicitly all the non-bundle extras that you want to install.

extra

install command

enables

all

pip install 'apache-airflow[all]'

All Airflow user facing features (no devel and doc requirements)

all_dbs

pip install 'apache-airflow[all_dbs]'

All database integrations

devel

pip install 'apache-airflow[devel]'

Minimum development dependencies (without Hadoop, Kerberos, providers)

devel_hadoop

pip install 'apache-airflow[devel_hadoop]'

Adds Hadoop stack libraries to devel dependencies

devel_all

pip install 'apache-airflow[devel_all]'

Everything needed for development including Hadoop and providers

devel_ci

pip install 'apache-airflow[devel_ci]'

All dependencies required for CI tests (same as devel_all)

Doc extras

Those are the extras that are needed to generated documentation for Airflow. This is used for development time only

extra

install command

enables

doc

pip install 'apache-airflow[doc]'

Packages needed to build docs (included in devel)

doc_gen

pip install 'apache-airflow[doc_gen]'

Packages needed to generate er diagrams (included in devel_all)

Deprecated 1.10 extras

These are the extras that have been deprecated in 2.0 and will be removed in Airflow 3.0.0. They were all replaced by new extras, which have naming consistent with the names of provider packages.

The crypto extra is not needed any more, because all crypto dependencies are part of airflow package, so there is no replacement for crypto extra.

Deprecated extra

Extra to be used instead

atlas

apache.atlas

aws

amazon

azure

microsoft.azure

cassandra

apache.cassandra

crypto

druid

apache.druid

gcp

google

gcp_api

google

hdfs

apache.hdfs

hive

apache.hive

kubernetes

cncf.kubernetes

mssql

microsoft.mssql

pinot

apache.pinot

qds

qubole

s3

amazon

spark

apache.spark

webhdfs

apache.webhdfs

winrm

microsoft.winrm

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