---
title: "RDS Postgres and Containerized Airflow"
description: "AWS RDS and Airflow example"
url: "https://www.pulumi.com/dev/examples/aws-ts-airflow/"
image: "https://www.pulumi.com/assets/og/dev/examples/aws-ts-airflow.png"
---

# RDS Postgres and Containerized Airflow

AWS RDS and Airflow example

- Source on GitHub: https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/aws-ts-airflow
- Deploy with Pulumi: https://app.pulumi.com/new?template=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpulumi%2Fexamples%2Ftree%2Fmaster%2Faws-ts-airflow

## Get started with this example

This example lives in the [pulumi/examples](https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/aws-ts-airflow) repo. Pull down just this directory to follow along:

```bash
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/pulumi/examples pulumi-examples
git -C pulumi-examples sparse-checkout set aws-ts-airflow
cd pulumi-examples/aws-ts-airflow
```

A Pulumi program to deploy an RDS Postgres instance and containerized Airflow.

## Deploying and running the program

For more information on how to run this example, see: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/ and https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/

1. Create a new stack:

   ```bash
   $ pulumi stack init airflow
   ```

1. Set the AWS region:

    ```
    $ pulumi config set aws:region us-east-1
    ```

1. Set the desired RDS password with:

    ```
    $ pulumi config set --secret airflow:dbPassword DESIREDPASSWORD
    ```

1. Restore NPM modules via `yarn install`.
1. Run `pulumi up` to preview and deploy changes.  After the preview is shown you will be
   prompted if you want to continue or not.

```
Previewing update of stack 'airflow'
Previewing changes:

     Type                                           Name                              Plan       Info
 +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack                            airflow                           create
...
```