--- title: What we learned after running Airflow on Kubernetes for... description: Learnings and insights from running Airflow on Kubernetes for 2 years, including executor choices, decoupling and dynamic DAG generation, fine-tuning... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-we-learned-after-running-airflow-on-kubernetes-for-2-years-hawjyvdvy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What we learned after running Airflow on Kubernetes for 2 years | daily.dev og:description: Learnings and insights from running Airflow on Kubernetes for 2 years, including executor choices, decoupling and dynamic DAG generation, fine-tuning... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-we-learned-after-running-airflow-on-kubernetes-for-2-years-hawjyvdvy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HAWJyvDVy.png og:image:alt: What we learned after running Airflow on Kubernetes for 2 years og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What we learned after running Airflow on Kubernetes for 2 years **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 12 min read · 10 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Learnings and insights from running Airflow on Kubernetes for 2 years, including executor choices, decoupling and dynamic DAG generation, fine-tuning configurations, and notifications/alerting/observability. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@archduke** · 0 upvotes > CI/CD on airflow via Github, Nice. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#data-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/data-engineering), [#orchestration](https://daily.dev/tags/orchestration), [#apache-airflow](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-airflow) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-we-learned-after-running-airflow-on-kubernetes-for-2-years-hawjyvdvy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What we learned after running Airflow on Kubernetes for 2 years","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-we-learned-after-running-airflow-on-kubernetes-for-2-years-hawjyvdvy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-we-learned-after-running-airflow-on-kubernetes-for-2-years-hawjyvdvy"},"datePublished":"2024-02-08T11:13:38.033Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:18.744Z","description":"Learnings and insights from running Airflow on Kubernetes for 2 years, including executor choices, decoupling and dynamic DAG generation, fine-tuning...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1c831a083ff44c32e9842519258e0147?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1c831a083ff44c32e9842519258e0147?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Medium","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Medium","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/medium","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-we-learned-after-running-airflow-on-kubernetes-for-2-years-hawjyvdvy","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":10},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"kubernetes,cicd,data-engineering,orchestration,apache-airflow","timeRequired":"PT12M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Medium","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What we learned after running Airflow on Kubernetes for 2 years"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-we-learned-after-running-airflow-on-kubernetes-for-2-years-hawjyvdvy","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"CI/CD on airflow via Github, Nice.","datePublished":"2024-02-09T10:32:29.212Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/HAWJyvDVy#c-qb9JiuqQb","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Shreyas B","url":"https://daily.dev/archduke","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJQzoV_KqJ38ldpQQqoP-703UmwvjR8aXq8Z0Dpc_QA=s96-c"}}]} ```