Installing Airflow on Windows

PublishedOctober 7, 2020

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I work as a business intelligence developer and a programming tutor for new learners.

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I started trying to install Apache Airflow on Windows 10 using pip. Quickly ran into a variety of errors. I eventually found a few articles that explained that Airflow uses Python libraries built for linux.

There are a few workarounds - using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or using Docker. I found articles with instructions:

https://coding-stream-of-consciousness.com/2018/11/06/apache-airflow-windows-10-install-ubuntu/

https://www.astronomer.io/guides/airflow-wsl/

I'll update with which approach works for me.

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