Apache Airflow vs direnv

Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow orchestration platform for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring data pipelines. Workflows are defined as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in Python, with a web-based UI for monitoring and management. Airflow is widely used for ETL/ELT workflows, ML pipelines, and data engineering tasks.

direnv Shell extension that loads and unloads environment variables based on the current directory.