Hi folks!
When the AQS cluster is migrated to use PKI TLS certs (I'll post a message in this task) we should force Airflow to load data via TLS. After a chat with Ben, the following came up: default args for Cassandra don't mention any SSL/TLS setting, at least according to the Spark Cassandra connector's docs.
AQS Cassandra supports both encrypted and unencrypted clients, we should force TLS in the Airflow configs as much as possible.