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| # Helm Chart for Apache Airflow |
| |
| [](https://artifacthub.io/packages/search?repo=apache-airflow) |
| |
| [Apache Airflow](https://airflow.apache.org/) is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows. |
| |
| ## Introduction |
| |
| This chart will bootstrap an [Airflow](https://airflow.apache.org) deployment on a [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io) |
| cluster using the [Helm](https://helm.sh) package manager. |
| |
| ## Requirements |
| |
| - Kubernetes 1.30+ cluster |
| - Helm 3.0+ |
| - PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure (optionally) |
| |
| ## Features |
| |
| * Supported executors (all Airflow versions): ``LocalExecutor``, ``CeleryExecutor``, ``KubernetesExecutor`` |
| * Supported multiple Executors |
| * Supported AWS executors with AWS provider version ``8.21.0+``: |
| * ``airflow.providers.amazon.aws.executors.batch.AwsBatchExecutor`` |
| * ``airflow.providers.amazon.aws.executors.ecs.AwsEcsExecutor`` |
| * Supported Edge executor with edge3 provider version ``1.0.0+``: |
| * ``airflow.providers.edge3.executors.EdgeExecutor`` |
| * Supported Airflow version: ``3.1+`` |
| * Supported database backend: ``PostgreSQL``, ``MySQL`` |
| * Autoscaling for ``CeleryExecutor`` provided by KEDA |
| * ``PostgreSQL`` and ``PgBouncer`` with a battle-tested configuration |
| * **Security enhancements**: |
| * Container-specific Service Account Token Volume configuration implementing Principle of Least Privilege |
| * Only scheduler containers receive API access; init and sidecar containers operate without tokens |
| * Defense-in-depth security with both ServiceAccount and Pod-level controls |
| * Compatibility with security policies like Kyverno and compliance frameworks |
| * Monitoring: |
| * StatsD/Prometheus metrics for Airflow |
| * Prometheus metrics for PgBouncer |
| * Flower |
| * Automatic database migration after a new deployment |
| * Administrator account creation during deployment |
| * Kerberos secure configuration |
| * One-command deployment for any type of executor. You don't need to provide other services e.g. Redis/Database to test the Airflow. |
| |
| ## Documentation |
| |
| Full documentation for Helm Chart (latest **stable** release) lives [on the website](https://airflow.apache.org/docs/helm-chart/). |
| |
| > Note: If you're looking for documentation for main branch (latest development branch): you can find it on [s.apache.org/airflow-docs/](http://apache-airflow-docs.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/docs/helm-chart/stable/index.html). |
| > Source code for documentation is in [`chart/docs`](https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/main/chart/docs) |
| > |
| |
| ## Contributing |
| |
| Want to help build Apache Airflow? Check out our [contributing documentation](https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/contributing-docs/README.rst). |
