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Airflow & DAGs · Advanced Development

TaskGroups vs SubDAGs

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Question

What is the difference between TaskGroups and SubDAGs?

Solution

TaskGroup

Groups related tasks visually for readability:

[ETL]          ├── Extract   ├── Transform └── Load     

SubDAG

A DAG nested inside another DAG. Historically awkward for scheduling and resources; generally deprecated/legacy, so avoid it. Prefer TaskGroup.

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