Issue created! https://github.com/helm/charts/issues/17933 . Thanks
Jonathan for feedback and bringing this up!

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 8:29 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks! Good points Jonathan. I will loop in the OWNERS indeed. I am also
> in contact with Daniel from Bitnami who manages the Bitnami Airflow image
> and helm chart and hopefully we can work out an approach where we can work
> together :). Helm Hub is also good. I updated the AIP to reflect those.
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 3:43 AM Jonathan Miles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> As a user of the official Helm Chart within The Trade Desk and
>> contributor of a few things there, I'm happy that the intention is to
>> reuse it. Like Marcin, I also got the opposite impression from reading
>> the earlier thread messages, so thanks for clarifying. There are many
>> valuable contributions to that chart from various people since it was
>> merged back in December 2018.
>>
>> There are two "owners" for the chart registered at the moment:
>> https://github.com/helm/charts/blob/master/stable/airflow/OWNERS.
>> Suppose it will be some time until the new image is ready, but probably
>> worth looping them in by creating a GitHub issue to register the intent
>> and discuss? Gsemet was the most responsive when I made my contributions.
>>
>> Now that there's also Helm Hub - https://hub.helm.sh/charts?q=airflow -
>> to help deal some of the scale challenges of managing so many charts in
>> a monorepo, it might also be worth considering moving the chart to its
>> own repo. It'd be easier to couple the chart to official Airflow
>> versions and even have multiple branches/tags in parallel.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On 13/10/2019 10:09, Jarek Potiuk wrote:
>> > It's likely we are both talking about the same :).
>> >
>> > I was never proposing to create a new helm chart to Apache Airflow
>> repo. I
>> > just proposed that the official docker image is made part of Airflow and
>> > change the official helm chart to use it.
>> >
>> > Official Helm charts are distributed via the helm github repo:
>> > https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/airflow  and it
>> should
>> > remain like that, no doubt about it. Maybe we will have to make a few
>> > adjustments to the chart itself to make it work with the new Airflow
>> image,
>> > but it likely should remain unchanged. There are multiple references to
>> > puckel image in the chart docs (how to fork etc.) and they should be
>> > updated to the official image. I believe Daniel Imberman wanted to work
>> on
>> > the helm chart once the docker image is released (I am happy to help
>> with
>> > that as well).
>> >
>> > I will make sure to update that in the AIP so that it is clear we are
>> not
>> > going to have another copy of the chart.
>> >
>> > J.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 10:57 AM Marcin Szymański <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Maybe I didn't put that clear enough, but my comment referred to the
>> chart
>> >> not the image. In fact I've been always running the stable/airflow
>> chart
>> >> with a custom built image, without any issues. Upgrading it to the
>> official
>> >> Airflow image seems like a simple PR, which I'm sure would get
>> accepted.
>> >>
>> >> For creating another helm chart I see no benefits, just downsides:
>> >> - helm repo to maintain
>> >> - helm repo must be added by the user
>> >> - chart doesn't go through official helm quality checks
>> >> - we don't get future helm CI enhancements
>> >> - confusion among users
>> >>
>> >> Next, helm chart releases will have to be aligned not only with
>> Airflow,
>> >> but also changes to helm and Kubernetes APIs.
>> >>
>> >> In short, I believe it's better to upgrade/fix the existing chart than
>> >> create a new one.
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, 13 Oct 2019, 09:39 Jarek Potiuk, <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Some more comments about Production-ready image and security/patches
>> >>> aspect.
>> >>>
>> >>> I updated the motivation section in AIP-26
>> >>> <
>> >>>
>> >>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/AIP-26+-+Production-ready+Airflow+Docker+Image+and+helm+chart
>> >>> to
>> >>> explain why we are working on community-driven image. I also updated
>> >>> description about releasing new Airflow image after Python security
>> >> patches
>> >>> have been released (hint - we automate it :).
>> >>>
>> >>> With the current CI image build process - whenever we rebuild image on
>> >>> DockerHub we automatically take into account the latest security
>> patches
>> >>> released by Python. We can easily make it in the way that we rebuild
>> and
>> >>> re-publish even all the already released images to include those
>> patches
>> >>> (however we need to include some kind of semver versioning for that I
>> >>> think). I make sure this is included while working on the POC PR for
>> >>> PROD-ready image - https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/6266
>> >>>
>> >>> This solves problems of security patches of the base Python image, but
>> >> one
>> >>> thing that came to my mind is whether we should pin dependencies for
>> >> those
>> >>> released images (and master image)? This is also related to separate
>> >>> pinning-dependencies
>> >>> <
>> >>>
>> >>
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c643d17833fd3bea534c8c6072cc91e7878348d79dcf756eb94d483f@%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E
>> >>> thread.
>> >>>
>> >>> My questio is - should we regularly re-release old images and re-pin
>> the
>> >>> dependencies with security patches? I guess so.
>> >>>
>> >>> I am already looking at some ways to automate (optional) pinning of
>> >>> dependencies and possibly also automating of applying latest security
>> >>> patches for dependencies. I think however that this should be a
>> separate
>> >>> AIP/proposal after we have the production image out and we can release
>> >> the
>> >>> production image for testing before we address it.
>> >>>
>> >>> I would love to hear your comments.
>> >>>
>> >>> J.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 9:10 AM Jarek Potiuk <
>> [email protected]>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Sorry - I missed that comment - it was not that you got ignored, I
>> just
>> >>>> missed it in the flood of emails I had :(. sorry.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The chart (and corresponding puckel image) is quite ok for the past
>> but
>> >>> if
>> >>>> we want to move forward, we need to make sure that the image, charts
>> >> etc.
>> >>>> are driven and managed by the community following release schedule
>> and
>> >>>> processes of Apache Software Foundation.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The current chart uses (often used) puckel image which was good for
>> >> quite
>> >>>> a while but it was not really part of the Apache official community
>> >>> effort.
>> >>>> For example one of the rules of releasing software is that any
>> software
>> >>>> formally released by the project must be voted by PMC (
>> >>>> https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#pmc-members)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> By bringing the official image to apache/airflow repository and
>> making
>> >>>> sure it is part of the release process of Airflow we can release new
>> >>> images
>> >>>> at the same time new versions of Airflow get released. Additionally
>> we
>> >>> can
>> >>>> provide more maintainability - for example add some more detailed
>> >>>> instructions and guidelines on how to run Airflow in the production
>> >>>> environment. We can also make sure we have some optimisations in
>> place
>> >>> and
>> >>>> support wider set of audience - hopefully we can get some feedback
>> from
>> >>>> people using the official Airflow image/chart and address it longer
>> >> term.
>> >>>> Once we incorporate it to our community process, it will be easier
>> for
>> >>>> everyone to contribute to it - in the same way they contribute to the
>> >>> code
>> >>>> of Airflow.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I will update Motivation section in the AIP to include that.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> J.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 8:06 PM Marcin Szymański <[email protected]>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>> What are the issues with the existing stable/airflow chart in helm
>> >>> public
>> >>>>> repo? I've used it on a number of occasions and it's good enough to
>> >>> deploy
>> >>>>> Airflow with Celery executor and run Kubernetes pods from Airflow
>> >> using
>> >>>>> in_cluster mode. Not sure if it allows to deploy Kubernetes executor
>> >>>>> though.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 8:43 AM Jarek Potiuk <
>> [email protected]
>> >>>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> I just created "AIP-26 - Production-ready Airflow Docker Image and
>> >>> helm
>> >>>>>> chart
>> >>>>>> <
>> >>>>>>
>> >>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/AIP-26+-+Production-ready+Airflow+Docker+Image+and+helm+chart
>> >>>>>>> "
>> >>>>>> proposal and would love community feedback and comments.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I would love to know what is your expectation from the Docker image
>> >>> and
>> >>>>> how
>> >>>>>> you are using production images currently.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> We were looking at the images available together with Daniel
>> >> Imberman
>> >>>>>> (including puckel and Astronomer image) and I started to work on a
>> >>> draft
>> >>>>>> POC
>> >>>>>> <https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/6266> to incorporate
>> >> building
>> >>>>> of
>> >>>>>> the production-ready image into the CI framework we have. The
>> >> current
>> >>>>> POC
>> >>>>>> uses the same Dockerfile we used for CI images but run with
>> >>>>>> production-ready parameters. I made a number of refactorings and
>> >>>>>> simplifications to the build logic and the scripts should be much
>> >> more
>> >>>>> sane
>> >>>>>> now (and unit-testable soon).
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> The images are based on Debian buster (Debian 10) LTS released few
>> >>>>> months
>> >>>>>> ago (so far we used Debian stretch for CI). It still needs some
>> >> fixes
>> >>>>> for
>> >>>>>> failing tests (
>> >> https://travis-ci.org/potiuk/airflow/builds/594281768)
>> >>>>> but
>> >>>>>> the image itself can be downloaded from my private repo: `docker
>> >> pull
>> >>>>>> potiuk/airflow:master-python3.5`)
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> The Docker file is available here:
>> >>>>>>
>> >> https://github.com/PolideaInternal/airflow/blob/prod-image/Dockerfile
>> >>>>>> Once we have good image we will work with Daniel on helm chart so
>> >> that
>> >>>>>> Airflow can be easily installed on Kubernetes.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Any comments and feedback/discussion in the AIP-26 document are
>> >>> welcome
>> >>>>> !
>> >>>>>> J.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> --
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Jarek Potiuk
>> >>>>>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>> >>>>>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Jarek Potiuk
>> >>>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>> >>>>
>> >>>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>> >>>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>> --
>> >>>
>> >>> Jarek Potiuk
>> >>> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>> >>>
>> >>> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
>> >>> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>> >>>
>> >
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Jarek Potiuk
> Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer
>
> M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129>
> [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/>
>
>

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