Glossary

• Generic pipeline

  • A pipeline that comprises only of notebook or script nodes.
  • This type of pipeline runs on JupyterLab, Kubeflow Pipelines, and Apache Airflow.
  • All pipelines created using Elyra < v2.3 are treated as generic pipelines.
  • It is not possible to convert a typed pipeline into a generic pipeline.

• Typed pipeline

  • A pipeline that comprises of notebooks, scripts, or runtime platform specific nodes.
  • Platform specific nodes are implemented using components.
  • Version 2.3 supports Kubeflow Pipelines and Apache Airflow as runtime platform.
  • It is not possible to convert a Kubeflow Pipelines pipeline into an Apache Airflow pipeline, and vice versa.
  • It is not possible to convert a typed pipeline into a generic pipeline.