Is there a way to configure different 'retries' for tasks in the same DAG

Question

I have a DAG with many sub-tasks in it. In the middle of the DAG, there is a validation task and based on the result/return code from the task, i want to take two different

Answer 1

Regarding your first problem, you set task/Operator specific retry options quite easily. Reference: baseoperator.py#L77.

Problem two, you can branch within a DAG easily with BranchPythonOperator (Example Usage: example_branch_operator.py). You will want to nest your validation task/logic within the BranchPythonOperator (You can define and execute operators within operators).