From the course: Data Engineering Pipeline Management with Apache Airflow

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The op role

The op role

- [Instructor] Let's log in as a user that has been assigned the OP role in Airflow. Now the OP role is the most powerful role just below the admin. So all of the permissions associated with the viewer role and the user role are available with the OP role plus some more. Notice that the admin tab is now available here in the OP role. The user with the OP role can perform administrative tasks such as creating variables, configuring connections changing other configurations, and so on. Let's select variables and let's update the variable that we had created previously. Here is the choice variable that has been set to a value of C indicating that taskC should be executed. I'm going to edit this record and update the choice variable to point to taskE. So in the branch, taskE is the branch that will be selected and executed. Let's go back to our DAGs. Notice that we can pause and unpause the DAG as we want to. Let's click…

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