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Manually building and testing release candidate distributions

Breeze can be used to test new release candidates of distributions - both Airflow and providers. You can easily configure the CI image of Breeze to install and start Airflow for both Airflow and providers, whether they are built from sources or downloaded from PyPI as release candidates.

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Prerequisites

The way to test it is rather straightforward:

  1. Make sure that the distributions - both airflow and providers are placed in the dist folder of your Airflow source tree. You can either build them there or download from PyPI (see the next chapter).

  2. You can run breeze shell or breeze start-airflow commands with adding the following flags - --mount-sources remove, --use-distributions-from-dist, and --use-airflow-version wheel/sdist. The first one removes the airflow source tree from the container when starting it, the second one installs airflow and providers distributions from the dist folder when entering breeze, and the third one specifies the distribution's format (either wheel or sdist). Omitting the latter will result in skipping the installation of the distribution(s), and a consequent error when later importing them.

Testing pre-release distributions

There are two ways how you can get Airflow distributions in dist folder - by building them from sources or downloading them from PyPI.

.. note ::

Make sure you run ``rm dist/*`` before you start building distributions or downloading them from PyPI because
the distributions built there already are not removed manually.

In order to build apache-airflow from sources, you need to run the following command:

.. code-block:: bash

breeze release-management prepare-airflow-distributions

In order to build providers from sources, you need to run the following command:

.. code-block:: bash

breeze release-management prepare-provider-distributions <PROVIDER_1> <PROVIDER_2> ... <PROVIDER_N>

The distributions are built in dist folder and the command will summarise what distributions are available in the dist folder after it finishes.

If you want to download the distributions from PyPI, you need to run the following command:

.. code-block:: bash

pip download apache-airflow-providers-<PROVIDER_NAME>==X.Y.Zrc1 --dest dist --no-deps

You can use it for both release and pre-release distributions.

Examples of testing pre-release distributions

Few examples below explain how you can test pre-release distributions, and combine them with locally build and released distributions.

The following example downloads apache-airflow and celery and kubernetes providers from PyPI and eventually starts Airflow with the Celery Executor. It also loads example dags and default connections:

.. code:: bash

rm dist/*
pip download apache-airflow==2.9.0rc1 --dest dist --no-deps
pip download apache-airflow-providers-celery==3.6.2rc1 --dest dist --no-deps
pip download apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes==8.1.0rc1 --dest dist --no-deps
breeze start-airflow --mount-sources remove --use-distributions-from-dist --use-airflow-version sdist --executor CeleryExecutor --backend postgres --load-default-connections --load-example-dags

The following example downloads celery and kubernetes providers from PyPI, builds apache-airflow distribution from the main sources and eventually starts Airflow with the Celery Executor. It also loads example dags and default connections:

.. code:: bash

rm dist/*
breeze release-management prepare-airflow-distributions
pip download apache-airflow-providers-celery==3.6.2rc1 --dest dist --no-deps
pip download apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes==8.1.0rc1 --dest dist --no-deps
breeze start-airflow --mount-sources remove --use-distributions-from-dist --use-airflow-version sdist --executor CeleryExecutor --backend postgres --load-default-connections --load-example-dags

The following example builds celery, kubernetes providers from the main sources, downloads 2.9.0 version of apache-airflow distribution from PyPI and eventually starts Airflow using default executor for the backend chosen (no example dags, no default connections):

.. code:: bash

rm dist/*
breeze release-management prepare-provider-distributions celery cncf.kubernetes
pip download apache-airflow==2.9.0 --dest dist --no-deps
breeze start-airflow --mount-sources remove --use-distributions-from-dist --use-airflow-version sdist

You can mix and match distributions from PyPI (final or pre-release candidates) with locally build distributions. You can also choose which providers to install this way since the --mount-sources remove flag makes sure that Airflow installed does not contain all the providers - only those that you explicitly downloaded or built in the dist folder. This way you can test all the combinations of Airflow and Providers you might need.


For other kinds of tests look at Testing document <../09_testing.rst>__