Cloud Composer 1 | Cloud Composer 2
Apache Airflow includes a web user interface (UI) that you can use to manage workflows (DAGs), manage the Airflow environment, and perform administrative actions. For example, you can use the web interface to review the progress of a DAG, set up a new data connection, or review logs from previous DAG runs.
Airflow web server
Each Cloud Composer environment has a web server that runs the Airflow web interface. The web server is a part of Cloud Composer environment architecture.
Before you begin
You must have a role that can view Cloud Composer environments. For more information, see Access control.
During the environment creation, Cloud Composer configures the URL for the web server that runs the Airflow web interface. The URL is non-customizable.
- Cloud Composer 2 supports the Airflow UI Access Control (Airflow Role-Based Access Control) feature for the Airflow web interface.
Accessing the Airflow web interface
The Airflow web server runs
as a workload in your environment's cluster. The web server is
deployed to the composer.googleusercontent.com
domain and provides access to
the Airflow web interface.
Cloud Composer 2 provides access to the interface based on user identities and IAM policy bindings defined for users. Compared to Cloud Composer 1, Cloud Composer 2 uses a different mechanism that does not rely on Identity-Aware Proxy.
Accessing the web interface from the Google Cloud console
To access the Airflow web interface from the Google Cloud console:
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Environments page.
In the Airflow webserver column, follow the Airflow link for your environment.
Limiting access to the Airflow web server
Composer environments let you limit access to the Airflow web server.
You can block all access, or allow access from specific IPv4 or IPv6 external IP ranges.
Currently you cannot configure the allowed IP ranges using private IP addresses.
Retrieving the web interface URL via the gcloud
command-line tool
You can access the Airflow web interface from any web browser. To get the URL
for the web interface, enter the following gcloud
command:
gcloud composer environments describe ENVIRONMENT_NAME \
--location LOCATION
Replace the following:
ENVIRONMENT_NAME
: the name of your environment.LOCATION
: the region where the environment is located.
The gcloud
command shows the properties of a Cloud Composer
environment, including the URLs for the web interface. The URLs are
listed as airflowUri
and airflowByoidUri
:
- The
airflowUri
URL address is used by Google accounts. - The
airflowByoidUri
URL address is used by external identities if you configure Workforce identity federation in your project.
config:
airflowUri: https://example-dot-us-central1.composer.googleusercontent.com
airflowByoidUri: https://example-dot-us-central1.composer.byoid.googleusercontent.com
Restarting the web server
When debugging or troubleshooting Cloud Composer environments, some issues
may be resolved by restarting the Airflow web server. You can restart the web
server using the restartWebServer API
or the restart-web-server
gcloud command:
gcloud beta composer environments restart-web-server ENVIRONMENT_NAME \
--location=LOCATION