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Support partial parsing when using ExecutionMode.KUBERNETES and DOCKER #929

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tatiana opened this issue Apr 29, 2024 · 1 comment
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tatiana commented Apr 29, 2024

The PR #800 introduced support for leveraging partial parsing when using ExecutionMode.LOCAL and ExecutionMode.VIRTUALENV.

This ticket aims to assess if Cosmos users set ExecutionMode.DOCKER and ExecutionMode.KUBERNETES can currently leverage partial parsing. If yes, we should update the docs. If not, implement what is needed to support it.

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@tatiana tatiana added this to the 1.6.0 milestone Apr 30, 2024
tatiana added a commit that referenced this issue May 1, 2024
…ct (#904)

Improve the performance to run the benchmark DAG with 100 tasks by 34%
and the benchmark DAG with 10 tasks by 22%, by persisting the dbt
partial parse artifact in Airflow nodes. This performance can be even
higher in the case of dbt projects that take more time to be parsed.

With the introduction of #800, Cosmos supports using dbt partial parsing
files. This feature has led to a substantial performance improvement,
particularly for large dbt projects, both during Airflow DAG parsing
(using LoadMode.DBT_LS) and also Airflow task execution (when using
`ExecutionMode.LOCAL` and `ExecutionMode.VIRTUALENV`).

There were two limitations with the initial support to partial parsing,
which the current PR aims to address:

1. DAGs using Cosmos `ProfileMapping` classes could not leverage this
feature. This is because the partial parsing relies on profile files not
changing, and by default, Cosmos would mock the dbt profile in several
parts of the code. The consequence is that users trying Cosmos 1.4.0a1
will see the following message:
```
13:33:16  Unable to do partial parsing because profile has changed
13:33:16  Unable to do partial parsing because env vars used in profiles.yml have changed
```

2. The user had to explicitly provide a `partial_parse.msgpack` file in
the original project folder for their Airflow deployment - and if, for
any reason, this became outdated, the user would not leverage the
partial parsing feature. Since Cosmos runs dbt tasks from within a
temporary directory, the partial parse would be stale for some users, it
would be updated in the temporary directory, but the next time the task
was run, Cosmos/dbt would not leverage the recently updated
`partial_parse.msgpack` file.

The current PR addresses these two issues respectfully by:

1. Allowing users that want to leverage Cosmos `ProfileMapping` and
partial parsing to use `RenderConfig(enable_mock_profile=False)`

2. Introducing a Cosmos cache directory where we are persisting partial
parsing files. This feature is enabled by default, but users can opt out
by setting the Airflow configuration `[cosmos][enable_cache] = False`
(exporting the environment variable `AIRFLOW__COSMOS__ENABLE_CACHE=0`).
Users can also define the temporary directory used to store these files
using the `[cosmos][cache_dir]` Airflow configuration. By default,
Cosmos will create and use a folder `cosmos` inside the system's
temporary directory:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.gettempdir .

This PR affects both DAG parsing and task execution. Although it does
not introduce an optimisation per se, it makes the partial parse feature
implemented #800 available to more users.

Closes: #722

I updated the documentation in the PR: #898

Some future steps related to optimization associated to caching to be
addressed in separate PRs:
i. Change how we create mocked profiles, to create the file itself in
the same way, referencing an environment variable with the same name -
and only changing the value of the environment variable (#924)
ii. Extend caching to the `profiles.yml` created by Cosmos in the newly
introduced `tmp/cosmos` without the need to recreate it every time
(#925).
iii. Extend caching to the Airflow DAG/Task group as a pickle file -
this approach is more generic and would work for every type of DAG
parsing and executor. (#926)
iv. Support persisting/fetching the cache from remote storage so we
don't have to replicate it for every Airflow scheduler and worker node.
(#927)
v. Cache dbt deps lock file/avoid installing dbt steps every time. We
can leverage `package-lock.yml` introduced in dbt t 1.7
(https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/commands/deps#predictable-package-installs),
but ideally, we'd have a strategy to support older versions of dbt as
well. (#930)
vi. Support caching `partial_parse.msgpack` even when vars change:
https://medium.com/@sebastian.daum89/how-to-speed-up-single-dbt-invocations-when-using-changing-dbt-variables-b9d91ce3fb0d
vii. Support partial parsing in Docker and Kubernetes Cosmos executors
(#929)
viii. Centralise all the Airflow-based config into Cosmos settings.py &
create a dedicated docs page containing information about these (#928)

**How to validate this change**

Run the performance benchmark against this and the `main` branch,
checking the value of `/tmp/performance_results.txt`.

Example of commands run locally:

```
# Setup
AIRFLOW_HOME=`pwd` AIRFLOW_CONN_AIRFLOW_DB="postgres://postgres:[email protected]:5432/postgres" PYTHONPATH=`pwd` AIRFLOW_HOME=`pwd` AIRFLOW__CORE__DAGBAG_IMPORT_TIMEOUT=20000 AIRFLOW__CORE__DAG_FILE_PROCESSOR_TIMEOUT=20000 hatch run tests.py3.11-2.7:test-performance-setup

# Run test for 100 dbt models per DAG:
MODEL_COUNT=100 AIRFLOW_HOME=`pwd` AIRFLOW_CONN_AIRFLOW_DB="postgres://postgres:[email protected]:5432/postgres" PYTHONPATH=`pwd` AIRFLOW_HOME=`pwd` AIRFLOW__CORE__DAGBAG_IMPORT_TIMEOUT=20000 AIRFLOW__CORE__DAG_FILE_PROCESSOR_TIMEOUT=20000 hatch run tests.py3.11-2.7:test-performance
```

An example of output when running 100 with the main branch:
```
NUM_MODELS=100
TIME=114.18614888191223
MODELS_PER_SECOND=0.8757629623135543
DBT_VERSION=1.7.13
```

And with the current PR:
```
NUM_MODELS=100
TIME=75.17766404151917
MODELS_PER_SECOND=1.33018232576064
DBT_VERSION=1.7.13
```
@tatiana tatiana modified the milestones: Cosmos 1.6.0, Cosmos 1.7.0 Jul 5, 2024
arojasb3 pushed a commit to arojasb3/astronomer-cosmos that referenced this issue Jul 14, 2024
…ct (astronomer#904)

Improve the performance to run the benchmark DAG with 100 tasks by 34%
and the benchmark DAG with 10 tasks by 22%, by persisting the dbt
partial parse artifact in Airflow nodes. This performance can be even
higher in the case of dbt projects that take more time to be parsed.

With the introduction of astronomer#800, Cosmos supports using dbt partial parsing
files. This feature has led to a substantial performance improvement,
particularly for large dbt projects, both during Airflow DAG parsing
(using LoadMode.DBT_LS) and also Airflow task execution (when using
`ExecutionMode.LOCAL` and `ExecutionMode.VIRTUALENV`).

There were two limitations with the initial support to partial parsing,
which the current PR aims to address:

1. DAGs using Cosmos `ProfileMapping` classes could not leverage this
feature. This is because the partial parsing relies on profile files not
changing, and by default, Cosmos would mock the dbt profile in several
parts of the code. The consequence is that users trying Cosmos 1.4.0a1
will see the following message:
```
13:33:16  Unable to do partial parsing because profile has changed
13:33:16  Unable to do partial parsing because env vars used in profiles.yml have changed
```

2. The user had to explicitly provide a `partial_parse.msgpack` file in
the original project folder for their Airflow deployment - and if, for
any reason, this became outdated, the user would not leverage the
partial parsing feature. Since Cosmos runs dbt tasks from within a
temporary directory, the partial parse would be stale for some users, it
would be updated in the temporary directory, but the next time the task
was run, Cosmos/dbt would not leverage the recently updated
`partial_parse.msgpack` file.

The current PR addresses these two issues respectfully by:

1. Allowing users that want to leverage Cosmos `ProfileMapping` and
partial parsing to use `RenderConfig(enable_mock_profile=False)`

2. Introducing a Cosmos cache directory where we are persisting partial
parsing files. This feature is enabled by default, but users can opt out
by setting the Airflow configuration `[cosmos][enable_cache] = False`
(exporting the environment variable `AIRFLOW__COSMOS__ENABLE_CACHE=0`).
Users can also define the temporary directory used to store these files
using the `[cosmos][cache_dir]` Airflow configuration. By default,
Cosmos will create and use a folder `cosmos` inside the system's
temporary directory:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.gettempdir .

This PR affects both DAG parsing and task execution. Although it does
not introduce an optimisation per se, it makes the partial parse feature
implemented astronomer#800 available to more users.

Closes: astronomer#722

I updated the documentation in the PR: astronomer#898

Some future steps related to optimization associated to caching to be
addressed in separate PRs:
i. Change how we create mocked profiles, to create the file itself in
the same way, referencing an environment variable with the same name -
and only changing the value of the environment variable (astronomer#924)
ii. Extend caching to the `profiles.yml` created by Cosmos in the newly
introduced `tmp/cosmos` without the need to recreate it every time
(astronomer#925).
iii. Extend caching to the Airflow DAG/Task group as a pickle file -
this approach is more generic and would work for every type of DAG
parsing and executor. (astronomer#926)
iv. Support persisting/fetching the cache from remote storage so we
don't have to replicate it for every Airflow scheduler and worker node.
(astronomer#927)
v. Cache dbt deps lock file/avoid installing dbt steps every time. We
can leverage `package-lock.yml` introduced in dbt t 1.7
(https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/commands/deps#predictable-package-installs),
but ideally, we'd have a strategy to support older versions of dbt as
well. (astronomer#930)
vi. Support caching `partial_parse.msgpack` even when vars change:
https://medium.com/@sebastian.daum89/how-to-speed-up-single-dbt-invocations-when-using-changing-dbt-variables-b9d91ce3fb0d
vii. Support partial parsing in Docker and Kubernetes Cosmos executors
(astronomer#929)
viii. Centralise all the Airflow-based config into Cosmos settings.py &
create a dedicated docs page containing information about these (astronomer#928)

**How to validate this change**

Run the performance benchmark against this and the `main` branch,
checking the value of `/tmp/performance_results.txt`.

Example of commands run locally:

```
# Setup
AIRFLOW_HOME=`pwd` AIRFLOW_CONN_AIRFLOW_DB="postgres://postgres:[email protected]:5432/postgres" PYTHONPATH=`pwd` AIRFLOW_HOME=`pwd` AIRFLOW__CORE__DAGBAG_IMPORT_TIMEOUT=20000 AIRFLOW__CORE__DAG_FILE_PROCESSOR_TIMEOUT=20000 hatch run tests.py3.11-2.7:test-performance-setup

# Run test for 100 dbt models per DAG:
MODEL_COUNT=100 AIRFLOW_HOME=`pwd` AIRFLOW_CONN_AIRFLOW_DB="postgres://postgres:[email protected]:5432/postgres" PYTHONPATH=`pwd` AIRFLOW_HOME=`pwd` AIRFLOW__CORE__DAGBAG_IMPORT_TIMEOUT=20000 AIRFLOW__CORE__DAG_FILE_PROCESSOR_TIMEOUT=20000 hatch run tests.py3.11-2.7:test-performance
```

An example of output when running 100 with the main branch:
```
NUM_MODELS=100
TIME=114.18614888191223
MODELS_PER_SECOND=0.8757629623135543
DBT_VERSION=1.7.13
```

And with the current PR:
```
NUM_MODELS=100
TIME=75.17766404151917
MODELS_PER_SECOND=1.33018232576064
DBT_VERSION=1.7.13
```
@tatiana tatiana modified the milestones: Cosmos 1.7.0, Triage Sep 20, 2024
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