Install Astronomer is quite simple In windows you have to follow the following steps:

1. Install docker
2. Install Linux on Windows with WSL.
3. Add the Astro Exe to a location. In general: C\
   • Change the name of the executable
4. Add the file to the environment variables
5. Start Docker
6. Initialize and run your astronomer project

1 – Install docker

Go to the docker’s webpage, download the executable and install it.

Installation succeeded

2 – Install Linux on Windows with WSL

As you can see on the Microsoft documentation you have to run on PowerShell the following command:

wsl --install

3 – Add the Astro Exe to a location.

Go to the Atronomer release page on GitHub and download the .exe according to your architecture. Note: this is not an executable

Add to the location desire (in my case C)

4 – Add the file to the environment variables

Now, if I run Astro:

astro

I can see the Astro-CLI:

5 – Start Docker

If you run:

astro dev start

Before starting Docker you’ll receive the following message:

Error: error creating docker-compose project: error during connect: This error may indicate that the docker daemon is not running.: Get "http://%2F%2F.%2Fpipe%2Fdocker_engine/v1.24/containers/json?all=1&filters=%7B%22label%22%3A%7B%22com.docker.compose.project%3Dastrotest_6ce924%22%3Atrue%7D%7D&limit=0": open //./pipe/docker_engine: The system cannot find the file specified.

You only have to find the icon generated for the docker installer:

6 – Initialize and run your astronomer project

initialize the project

C:\Users\Public\Documents\astrotest>astro dev init
Initializing Astro project
Pulling Airflow development files from Astro Runtime 7.2.0
Initialized empty Astro project in C:\Users\Public\Documents\astrotest

Start the project:

astro dev start

Congratulations! You’ve have installed and starting the Astronomer service. You can ran your DAGS in Airflow