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With a little bit of work you could probably trigger tasks on a Windows Machine, in particular if the work you need to do is mostly script and/or SQL based. The main limit is that Gunicorn for the Airflow webserver is not currently compatible with Windows, but the scheduler should work fine. I believe it might be able to run in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, but I don't think anyone has tested it as of yet. (Source: I am an Apache Airflow committer)

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Thanks! To be fair, I was looking at it from a single-user perspective, and was optimizing for:

    time it takes to setup and move my ETL to Airflow + time I will save in the future by using the framework

    time I will spend fixing and maintaining my already-existing ETL scripts

so I dropped the notion after I hit the first major snag. But I should put a reminder to take a look back at it in a few months!

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