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Running Airflow locally
-----------------------

This quick start guide will help you bootstrap an Airflow standalone instance on your local machine.

.. note::

   Successful installation requires a Python 3 environment.

   Only ``pip`` installation is currently officially supported.

   While there have been successes with using other tools like `poetry <https://python-poetry.org/>`_ or
   `pip-tools <https://pypi.org/project/pip-tools/>`_, they do not share the same workflow as
   ``pip`` - especially when it comes to constraint vs. requirements management.
   Installing via ``Poetry`` or ``pip-tools`` is not currently supported.

   If you wish to install airflow using those tools you should use the constraint files and convert
   them to appropriate format and workflow that your tool requires.

The installation of Airflow is painless if you are following the instructions below. Airflow uses
constraint files to enable reproducible installation, so using ``pip`` and constraint files is recommended.

.. code-block:: bash
    :substitutions:

    # Airflow needs a home. `~/airflow` is the default, but you can put it
    # somewhere else if you prefer (optional)
    export AIRFLOW_HOME=~/airflow

    # Install Airflow using the constraints file
    AIRFLOW_VERSION=|version|
    PYTHON_VERSION="$(python --version | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -d "." -f 1-2)"
    # For example: 3.6
    CONSTRAINT_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-${AIRFLOW_VERSION}/constraints-${PYTHON_VERSION}.txt"
    # For example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-|version|/constraints-3.6.txt
    pip install "apache-airflow==${AIRFLOW_VERSION}" --constraint "${CONSTRAINT_URL}"

    # The Standalone command will initialise the database, make a user,
    # and start all components for you.
    airflow standalone

    # Visit localhost:8080 in the browser and use the admin account details
    # shown on the terminal to login.
    # Enable the example_bash_operator dag in the home page

Upon running these commands, Airflow will create the ``$AIRFLOW_HOME`` folder
and create the "airflow.cfg" file with defaults that will get you going fast.
You can override defaults using environment variables, see :doc:`/configurations-ref`.
You can inspect the file either in ``$AIRFLOW_HOME/airflow.cfg``, or through the UI in
the ``Admin->Configuration`` menu. The PID file for the webserver will be stored
in ``$AIRFLOW_HOME/airflow-webserver.pid`` or in ``/run/airflow/webserver.pid``
if started by systemd.

Out of the box, Airflow uses a SQLite database, which you should outgrow
fairly quickly since no parallelization is possible using this database
backend. It works in conjunction with the
:class:`~airflow.executors.sequential_executor.SequentialExecutor` which will
only run task instances sequentially. While this is very limiting, it allows
you to get up and running quickly and take a tour of the UI and the
command line utilities.

As you grow and deploy Airflow to production, you will also want to move away
from the ``standalone`` command we use here to running the components
separately. You can read more in :doc:`/production-deployment`.

Here are a few commands that will trigger a few task instances. You should
be able to see the status of the jobs change in the ``example_bash_operator`` DAG as you
run the commands below.

.. code-block:: bash

    # run your first task instance
    airflow tasks run example_bash_operator runme_0 2015-01-01
    # run a backfill over 2 days
    airflow dags backfill example_bash_operator \
        --start-date 2015-01-01 \
        --end-date 2015-01-02

If you want to run the individual parts of Airflow manually rather than using
the all-in-one ``standalone`` command, you can instead run:

.. code-block:: bash

    airflow db init

    airflow users create \
        --username admin \
        --firstname Peter \
        --lastname Parker \
        --role Admin \
        --email spiderman@superhero.org

    airflow webserver --port 8080

    airflow scheduler

What's Next?
''''''''''''
From this point, you can head to the :doc:`/tutorial` section for further examples or the :doc:`/howto/index` section if you're ready to get your hands dirty.