[GitHub] [airflow] sdanbury edited a comment on issue #14231: Quick start for Airflow on Mac OS

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sdanbury edited a comment on issue #14231:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/14231#issuecomment-779297831


   Apologies, I think there was some initial confusion on my part. It appeared on the surface that breeze was mainly a non-containerised approach, but it appears to be a hybrid approach as you say (some of it uses docker/docker-compose, some doesn't).
   
   The confusion was mainly around the `./breeze initialize-local-virtualenv --python 3.6` step, which I believe falls into your `1. Local dev env` point above. This took a really long time for me on my setup. Most of the issues were raised by @mik-laj in the issue description; some examples:
   - `cryptography` requiring a rust compiler
   - [This issue](https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/3489) requiring me to set some environment variables
   - Needing to `brew install mysql`
   
   There were a few other little things. Without a fully containerised setup (where you don't need a local venv) I can't see a quick way of getting past stuff like this, you just have to invest the time upfront, hopefully get through it and create docs. Although I appreciate that this isn't always possible for newcomers to the project.
   
   I have worked with Airflow for a couple of years now and have always just rolled my own local setup. We are running airflow on k8s with the k8s executor and I wanted to revisit my local airflow setup, hence why I started going through this process.
   
   Very keen to begin contributing back. This seems like a great place to start. I will continue down this path, gather some thoughts together and open some PRs if I come across something.


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