When we refer to a “Task”, we are describing an Airflow DAG Task – or step in a series of steps (See DAG in terminology, above). Because Airflow allows for running of Python, SQL or external actions using connectors and operators, an Airflow Task could include things like:
- Python code executing a program
- Python code executing SQL
- Execution of SQL (without Python)
- Execution of Stored Procedures
- Any many many more