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Run Airflow CLI commands in your local Airflow environment. This command is for local development only and cannot be applied to Deployments running on Astro.

Usage

1astro dev run <airflow-command>

Examples

1$ astro dev run users create --role Admin --username admin --email <your-email-address> --firstname <your-first-name> --lastname <your-last-name> --password admin
2# Create a user in your local Airflow environment using the `airflow user create` Airflow CLI command
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4$ astro dev run connections export - --file-format=env --serialization-format=json
5# Export connections in your local Airflow environment to STDOUT in a JSON format
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7$ astro dev run connections export - --file-format=env
8# Export connections in your local Airflow environment to STDOUT in the default URI format

Related Commands

  • astro dev logs
  • astro dev ps