Astronomer and Snowflake have partnered to integrate Snowpark Container Services with Apache Airflow, enhancing how organizations manage data pipelines. This collaboration enables developers to bring code closer to data, leveraging Airflow's capabilities for orchestrating data movements, executing transformations, and performing data quality checks within Snowflake. The partnership introduces new features, such as Snowpark Operators, an XCOM backend for Snowflake, and a Snowpark Container Services Operator, which facilitate diverse data engineering and application development tasks. Snowpark Container Services, currently in private preview, allows for containerized software deployment directly within Snowflake's infrastructure, simplifying dependency management and enhancing security. Astro, Astronomer's fully-managed service for Apache Airflow, complements this by streamlining Airflow management, enabling data teams to focus on building effective data pipelines without infrastructure concerns, aligning with Snowflake's "no knobs" engineering philosophy.