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Building and Testing a new Apache Airflow Plugin

Recently, I had the opportunity to add a new EMR on EKS plugin to Apache Airflow. While I’ve been a consumer of Airflow over the years, I’ve never contributed directly to the project. And weighing in at over half a million lines of code, Airflow is a pretty complex project to wade into. So here’s a guide on how I made a new operator in the AWS provider package. Overview Before you get started, it’s good to have an understanding of the different components of an Airflow task....

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