Hello Airflow community! I'm unbelievably excited to announce that after a (much-needed) vacation through the month of June (hmu if anyone happens to live in Chiang Mai or Bali :) ), I will be joining Astronomer as a full-time advocate/committer for the Airflow community :D.
*What this means for the airflow community* 1. Better support for the Kubernetes Executor The most noticeable change to the Aiflow community is that I will be able to focus a LOT more effort towards nurturing the Airflow + Kubernetes use-cases + support stories. For the last two years, I've unfortunately only been able to work on this effort as a passion project/<20% project. With more flexibility I intend to become highly active on the airflow slack and on the mailing list. I will be addressing bugs + helping users interested in adding features. There is certainly work to be done to stabilize/productionize this executor, and I look forward to taking this effort further in the near future. 2. Better Documentation A good friend of mine recently said "being a paid open source committer means that it is now your job to smooth out the onramp for the rest of the community" and I take this charge very seriously. Once I am on-board full-time, I plan to write detailed documentation for running, contributing, and debugging k8s-based airflow workflows. I will also be offering office hours, lunch + learns, twitch streams, and anything else that can help interested users join this incredibly supportive community. 3. A better Airflow + Kubernetes deployment story There are a few operators/helm charts/bash scripts floating around the internet that are suggested for launching Airflow on Kubernetes. I am starting the process to reach out to these owners and consolidate a canonical set of deployment options to make launching airflow on k8s as easy as possible --- I want to sincerely thank the team at astronomer for this incredible opportunity. Through my conversations and meetings with them I can tell that this company truly cares about this project and have been consistent good actors in the community. I look forward to helping you all further in the near future! Best, Daniel
