Overview Astro by Astronomer is a modern DataOps platform built on Apache Airflow®, designed to help data teams build, run, and observe data pipelines with ease. It offers a fully managed environment that simplifies the deployment and management of data workflows, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.

Features and Capabilities

• Fully Managed Apache Airflow®: Astro provides a fully managed environment for Apache Airflow®, allowing teams to focus on building data pipelines without worrying about infrastructure.
• Scalability: Astro's platform is designed to scale with your data needs, ensuring that your workflows can handle increasing volumes of data.
• Security: With enterprise-grade security features, Astro ensures that your data is protected at all times.
• Reliability: Astro offers high availability and fault tolerance, ensuring that your data pipelines run smoothly without interruptions.
• Observability: Astro provides tools to monitor and observe your data pipelines, helping you identify and resolve issues quickly.
• Integration with dbt: Astro integrates seamlessly with dbt, allowing you to transform your data within your workflows.
• CLI and CI/CD Support: Astro supports command-line interface (CLI) and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows, enabling efficient development and deployment processes.
• Multi-Cloud Support: Astro supports deployment across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, providing flexibility and choice.
• Task Isolation: Astro ensures that tasks are isolated, preventing issues in one task from affecting others.
• Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO): Astro supports enterprise SSO, simplifying user authentication and access management.
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Astro provides RBAC, allowing you to control who has access to what within your data workflows.