About aws-mwaa-local-runner

This repository provides a command line interface (CLI) utility that replicates an Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) environment locally.

About the CLI

The CLI builds a Docker container image locally that’s similar to a MWAA production image. This allows you to run a local Apache Airflow environment to develop and test DAGs, custom plugins, and dependencies before deploying to MWAA.

What this repo contains

dags/
  requirements.txt
  tutorial.py
docker/
  .gitignore
  mwaa-local-env
  README.md
  config/
    airflow.cfg
    constraints.txt
    requirements.txt
    webserver_config.py
  script/
    bootstrap.sh
    entrypoint.sh
    systemlibs.sh
    generate_key.sh
  docker-compose-dbonly.yml
  docker-compose-local.yml
  docker-compose-sequential.yml
  Dockerfile

Prerequisites

macOS: Install Docker Desktop.
Linux/Ubuntu: Install Docker Compose and Install Docker Engine.
Windows: Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run the bash based command mwaa-local-env. Please follow Windows Subsystem for Linux Installation (WSL) and Using Docker in WSL 2, to get started.

Get started

git clone https://github.com/aws/aws-mwaa-local-runner.git
cd aws-mwaa-local-runner

Step one: Building the Docker image

Build the Docker container image using the following command:

./mwaa-local-env build-image

Note: it takes several minutes to build the Docker image locally.

Step two: Running Apache Airflow

Run Apache Airflow using one of the following database backends.

Local runner

Runs a local Apache Airflow environment that is a close representation of MWAA by configuration.

./mwaa-local-env start

To stop the local environment, Ctrl+C on the terminal and wait till the local runner and the postgres containers are stopped.

Step three: Accessing the Airflow UI

By default, the bootstrap.sh script creates a username and password for your local Airflow environment.

Username: admin
Password: test

Airflow UI

Open the Apache Airlfow UI: http://localhost:8080/.

Step four: Add DAGs and supporting files

The following section describes where to add your DAG code and supporting files. We recommend creating a directory structure similar to your MWAA environment.

DAGs

Add DAG code to the dags/ folder.
To run the sample code in this repository, see the tutorial.py file.

Requirements.txt

Add Python dependencies to dags/requirements.txt.
To test a requirements.txt without running Apache Airflow, use the following script:

./mwaa-local-env test-requirements

Let's say you add aws-batch==0.6 to your dags/requirements.txt file. You should see an output similar to:

Installing requirements.txt
Collecting aws-batch (from -r /usr/local/airflow/dags/requirements.txt (line 1))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5d/11/3aedc6e150d2df6f3d422d7107ac9eba5b50261cf57ab813bb00d8299a34/aws_batch-0.6.tar.gz
Collecting awscli (from aws-batch->-r /usr/local/airflow/dags/requirements.txt (line 1))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/07/4a/d054884c2ef4eb3c237e1f4007d3ece5c46e286e4258288f0116724af009/awscli-1.19.21-py2.py3-none-any.whl (3.6MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.6MB 365kB/s 
...
...
...
Installing collected packages: botocore, docutils, pyasn1, rsa, awscli, aws-batch
  Running setup.py install for aws-batch ... done
Successfully installed aws-batch-0.6 awscli-1.19.21 botocore-1.20.21 docutils-0.15.2 pyasn1-0.4.8 rsa-4.7.2

Custom plugins

Create a directory at the root of this repository, and change directories into it. This should be at the same level as dags/ and docker. For example:

mkdir plugins
cd plugins

Create a file for your custom plugin. For example:

virtual_python_plugin.py

(Optional) Add any Python dependencies to dags/requirements.txt.

Note: this step assumes you have a DAG that corresponds to the custom plugin. For examples, see MWAA Code Examples.

What's next?

Learn how to upload the requirements.txt file to your Amazon S3 bucket in Installing Python dependencies.
Learn how to upload the DAG code to the dags folder in your Amazon S3 bucket in Adding or updating DAGs.
Learn more about how to upload the plugins.zip file to your Amazon S3 bucket in Installing custom plugins.

FAQs

The following section contains common questions and answers you may encounter when using your Docker container image.

Can I test execution role permissions using this repository?

You can setup the local Airflow's boto with the intended execution role to test your DAGs with AWS operators before uploading to your Amazon S3 bucket. To setup aws connection for Airflow locally see Airflow | AWS Connection To learn more, see Amazon MWAA Execution Role.

How do I add libraries to requirements.txt and test install?

A requirements.txt file is included in the /dags folder of your local Docker container image. We recommend adding libraries to this file, and running locally.

What if a library is not available on PyPi.org?

If a library is not available in the Python Package Index (PyPi.org), add the --index-url flag to the package in your dags/requirements.txt file. To learn more, see Managing Python dependencies in requirements.txt.

Troubleshooting

The following section contains errors you may encounter when using the Docker container image in this repository.

My environment is not starting - process failed with dag_stats_table already exists

If you encountered the following error: process fails with "dag_stats_table already exists", you'll need to reset your database using the following command:

./mwaa-local-env reset-db

Fernet Key InvalidToken

A Fernet Key is generated during image build (./mwaa-local-env build-image) and is durable throughout all containers started from that image. This key is used to encrypt connection passwords in the Airflow DB. If changes are made to the image and it is rebuilt, you may get a new key that will not match the key used when the Airflow DB was initialized, in this case you will need to reset the DB (./mwaa-local-env reset-db).

Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

License

This library is licensed under the MIT-0 License. See the LICENSE file.

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