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, practically we learn how Airflow works.
Now, what is Airflow? Airflow is an open source workflow management tool. What is unique in Airflow is that we use a Python script to manage our workflows.
There are some elements we need to look at from the previous statement. Let's break down the statement into more detail. When talking about workflow management tools, there are three main components here, as follows:
- Handling task dependencies
- Scheduler
- System integration
As a workflow management tool...
