Airflow 3.0 Security Enhancements: Remote Execution and Task Isolation Deep Dive

Apache Airflow® powers business-critical applications for some of the largest organizations in the world, including industries like finance and healthcare, where security is non-negotiable. In Airflow 3, one of the biggest architectural shifts is the decoupling of task execution from other components. This means workers no longer have direct access to the metadata database, reducing potential vulnerabilities.

This change also enables remote execution, allowing you to run tasks securely in environments outside of your Airflow infrastructure. If your tasks access sensitive data or require specialized compute, this feature should be a top priority to implement.

In this session, we’ll break down these architectural changes and show you how to use these new features to run your tasks anywhere.