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Astronomer Software is the best way to run Apache Airflow in your private cloud. Using Astronomer's tooling, you can have fine-tuned control over every aspect of your Airflow experience.

Astronomer Software's key features ensure that enterprise organizations can run Apache Airflow securely and reliably:

• Push-button Deployments of Apache Airflow
• Role-based access control (RBAC) for configurable and secure user management
• Extensive cloud, network, third party provider, and system component configurations via Helm
• System logging, monitoring, and alerts via Grafana and Kibana
• Astronomer Certified, a collection of Docker images that provides a differentiated data orchestration experience. Astronomer Certified includes timely support for the latest major, minor, and patch versions of Airflow

The following diagram shows how you can run Airflow in your private cloud using Astronomer Software:

If you are new to Astronomer Software, use the following guides to install the system on your cloud service:

• Amazon Web Services EKS
• Google Cloud Platform GKE
• Microsoft Azure AKS

Because the platform uses Helm, it's easy to customize your Software installation. Below are some guides for most common customizations:

• Integrating Auth Systems
• Configuring Resources with Helm
• Configuring a Registry Back End
• Built-in Alerts

There are many tools at your disposal for administering Astronomer:

• The Houston API Playground
• Metrics
• Using Kibana
• Using kubectl
• Pulling Postgres Credentials
• Upgrade to a Patch Version of Astronomer Software

Usage of Astronomer requires an Astronomer Platform Software Edition license.