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Apache Airflow is too complex to run well

DevOps and infra5 posts from 5 people5d active+00 posts in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (fading)

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Posts per day5 posts, Aug 27 to Sep 25

The posts behind it

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Google Secrets Backend logs on every connection reference when using ADC### Under which category would you file this issue? Providers ### Apache Airflow version Airflow 3.3.1 ### What happened and how to reproduce it? [Configure Google Secrets Backend...apache/airflowemery-finkelsteinSep 1510 days ago
KubernetesExecutor: delete_pod fires before the self.running dedup check, causing repeated deletes per TaskInstanceKey### Under which category would you file this issue? Providers ### Apache Airflow version 3.3.1 ### What happened and how to reproduce it? KubernetesExecutor issues 2-3 delete_pod API calls for the same finished worker pod instead of one. The first call succeeds; the rest return...apache/airflowromina-nikolovaSep 92 weeks ago
ti.get_previous_ti method is not optimized### Under which category would you file this issue? Airflow Core ### Apache Airflow version 3.3.0 ### What happened and how to reproduce it? When we execute `ti.get_previous_ti(state='success')` airflow collects all task instances from the database and then gets the latest on...apache/airflowPolitePpSep 13 weeks ago
UI: durations and relative times render in English in all non-English locales (dayjs.locale() is never set)### Under which category would you file this issue? Airflow Core ### Apache Airflow version 3.2.0 ### What happened and how to reproduce it? The Dag deadline tooltip is only half translated. The sentence template and the reference point come out in the selected language, but the...apache/airflowbaha-boualiAug 313 weeks ago
BeamRunJavaPipelineOperator deferrable impersonation chain issue### Under which category would you file this issue? Airflow Core ### Apache Airflow version Airflow 2.11.1 ### What happened and how to reproduce it? "When running _BeamRunJavaPipelineOperator_ with `deferrable=True `and `impersonation_chain='target_service_account',` I get an...apache/airflowborevAug 274 weeks ago

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Apache Airflow5
GitHub5
Kubernetes5
Docker5
AWS1
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5 posts from 5 people in 1 place, about 2 a week over 20 days. Mostly on apache/airflow. Tools named alongside: GitHub, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS.

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Posts that state a pain and match the "k8s-complexity" rule about Apache Airflow. First post Aug 27, 2026, latest Sep 15, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method

History

  • 2026-09-25 Added: Apache Airflow is too complex to run well (5 posts)

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