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Airflow Variables

Datacoves injects several environment variables into Apache Airflow to streamline workflow configurations. Below is a list of important variables you may encounter:

Airflow information​

Variables containing information about Airflow:

  • DATACOVES__AIRFLOW_NOTIFICATION_INTEGRATION: Notification service for Airflow alerts. May be SLACK or TEAMS
  • DATACOVES__AIRFLOW_TYPE: May be team_airflow or my_airflow, useful for environment-specific logic like sending email alerts
  • DATACOVES__DAGS_FOLDER: Path where Airflow searches for DAGs, typically orchestrate/dags
  • DATACOVES__DBT_HOME: Read-only dbt home directory containing dbt_project.yml, typically transform
  • DATACOVES__DBT_PROFILE: Current dbt profile, commonly default
  • DATACOVES__REPO_PATH: Path to read-write copy of Airflow repo
  • DATACOVES__REPO_PATH_RO: Path to read-only copy of Airflow repo
  • DATACOVES__YAML_DAGS_FOLDER: Path to YAML files used by dbt-coves to generate Python DAGs, typically orchestrate/dags_yml_definitions

Datacoves environment information​

Variables containing information about the current Datacoves environment:

  • DATACOVES__ACCOUNT_ID: Account ID number
  • DATACOVES__ACCOUNT_SLUG: Account slug
  • DATACOVES__ENVIRONMENT_SLUG Environment slug (e.g. dev123)
  • DATACOVES__PROJECT_SLUG: Project slug (e.g. balboa-analytics-datacoves)

Version information​

Variables containing versions:

  • DATACOVES__SQLFLUFF_VERSION: Current version of SQLFLuff
  • DATACOVES__VERSION: Complete version of Datacoves including patch level
  • DATACOVES__VERSION_MAJOR_MINOR: Datacoves version excluding patch level (e.g. 5.0)
  • DATACOVES__VERSION__ENV: Complete version of Datacoves including patch level for this environment
  • DATACOVES__VERSION_MAJOR_MINOR__ENV: Datacoves version excluding patch level for this environment