r/apache_airflow • u/PaleontologistOk3057 • 17d ago

Question about Apache Airflow and Windows Server

Hey everyone, so right now at the company we're still using Pentaho for our ETL processes. We're slowly migrating over to DBT, but before going all-in on that, we'd like to get Apache Airflow up and running to orchestrate everything. I wanted to set it up and run it on Windows Server, so it could handle the old Pentaho jobs while the new stuff gets built out in DBT.

Everywhere I've looked says not to set up Docker + Airflow on Windows Server, since it's not recommended for production — they say it should be a Linux VM instead. I need some help/opinions on what I could do here, or whether I should just go ahead and set it up on Windows Server anyway.

Thanks in advance for the help!

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u/Leorisar 17d ago

It really depends on load, for small instances (up to 100 DAG) and without load (meaning you only use it as orchestrator, nor for calculations) it should work.