From the course: Apache Airflow Essential Training

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Quick Airflow setup overview

Quick Airflow setup overview

- [Instructor] Before we get into the first of our demos on the TaskFlow API, let's do a quick overview of our Airflow installation. Now, on my local machine, the Python version that I'm running is Python 3.9.13. Now, I'm going to be running Airflow on a slightly older version of Python, but you should know that Airflow has been tested with Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10. I'm going to be using Python 3.7 within a virtual environment. I'll run conda env list, and you can see that I have a 3.7 virtual environment available here, which is what I'm going to be using. I'm going to go ahead and activate this virtual environment, and from here on in, any Airflow commands I'll be running within this virtual env. Just something to keep in mind. The exact version of Python that I'm using to run Airflow is 3.7.16. Of course, you may have a different 3.7 version. Shouldn't really matter much. Now, I already have Airflow…

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