Building Airflow CTL with Buğra Öztürk at Mollie
From The Data Flowcast: Mastering Apache Airflow ® for Data Engineering and AI by Astronomer
April 30, 2026 · 20 min · Season 1 · Episode 79
About this episode
Buğra Öztürk discusses Airflow CTL, its features, and its future development in the context of Apache Airflow.
Buğra Öztürk , Senior Data Engineer at Mollie and Committer and PMC member on the Apache Airflow project, joins us to walk through Airflow CTL — what it is, how it differs from the existing Airflow CLI and where it is headed under AIP-94. Key Takeaways: 00:00 Introduction. 03:10 Buğra has contributed to Airflow since 2022, from docs changes up to Committer and PMC member — a path he hopes inspires others to start small and contribute. 04:05 Airflow CTL solves secure user interaction by abstracting database credentials behind the public core API. 05:13 Airflow CLI and Airflow CTL are complementary — CLI handles administration and database management while CTL handles secure user interactions via the API. 07:08 Airflow CTL authenticates via the API, acquires a JWT token and stores it securely in the OS keyring — running on the user's machine and never requiring direct database access. 08:21 Concrete use cases include local DAG development without the UI and CI/CD automation using headless mode with short-lived JWT tokens. 10:08 AIP-94 describes the long-term vision — decoupling all remote commands from the Airflow CLI and routing them through Airflow CTL. …
People in this episode
Guest: Buğra Öztürk
Topics covered
- Airflow CTL
- Apache Airflow
- Data Engineering
- CI/CD Automation
- User Authentication
- DAG Development
Keywords
- Airflow CTL
- Apache Airflow
- Data Engineer
- JWT token
- CI/CD
- AIP-94
- secure user interaction
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Mollie, Apache Airflow, AIP-94
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