Configuring Airflow¶

The Helm Chart allows for setting arbitrary Airflow configuration in values file under the config key. Some of the defaults in the chart may differ from those of core Airflow and can be found in values.yaml.

As an example of setting arbitrary configuration, the following override.yaml file demonstrates how one would allow Airflow UI users to view the Airflow configuration directly via UI:

override.yaml¶

config:
  api:
    expose_config: 'True'  # by default this is 'False'

Generally speaking, it is useful to familiarize oneself with the Airflow configuration prior to installing and deploying the service.

Note

The recommended way to load example Dags using the official Docker image and chart is to configure the AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES environment variable in extraEnv (see Parameters reference). The official Docker image has AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES=False set within the image, so you need to override it with an environment variable, when deploying the chart, in order for the examples to be present.