Right that would be the case if I am running multiple airflows.

In this case I have all the etl’s running in the same airflow so I have a 
separate dag for each.

Like if this was object oriented I would just make a base dag and then extend 
it to make all of the different env ones.



I
> On Nov 1, 2017, at 2:45 PM, Joy Gao <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> You could leverage the Variable feature in Airflow: start by setting a
> different environment variable in each env, and then in your DAG file,
> instead of hard-coding the schedule, call a method that looks up which
> environment it is (using Variable.get) and returns the desired one.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Michael Crawford <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Is there a best practice regarding registering similar DAGs which only
>> differ in small variables.
>> 
>> For instance say I have an certain ETL that I want to run on several
>> different environments on different schedules.
>> 
>> All of the DAGs would essentially be the exactly the same just with a few
>> different parameters.
>> 
>> It doesn’t seem like duplicating the DAG code over and over is the right
>> way to do this.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>> 

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