It's a poison pill, basically the task instance polls at its own state to look for a shutdown state and kills itself if it sees it. It will then proceed to send alert emails if any are set up, run the operator's `on_kill` method and set its own state to failed.
Max On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Jeremiah Lowin <[email protected]> wrote: > Tasks (and jobs) are put in that state if you clear them > (clear_task_instances() or “airflow clear”) while they’re running. > > Jeremiah > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:59 PM Lance Norskog <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > What is the 'shutdown' (blue rim) state? How does a task get to that > state? > > > > -- > > Lance Norskog > > [email protected] > > Redwood City, CA > > >
