Introduction to Cloud Composer

Cloud Composer is an Airflow-managed service in GCP. Using Cloud Composer, we don’t need to think about the infrastructure, installation, and software management for the Airflow environment. With this, we can focus only on the development and deployment of our data pipeline.

From the perspective of a data engineer, there is almost no difference between Cloud Composer and Airflow. When we learn how to use Cloud Composer, basically we learn how Airflow works.

Now, what is Airflow? Airflow is an open source workflow management tool. It comes with many features to support workflows, including monitoring, logging, a user interface, backfilling, and metadata management. What is unique in Airflow is that we use a Python script to manage our workflows, which is very friendly for data engineers in general.

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