Airflow UI with Role-Based Access Control

This is the continuation to the previous article on the Apache Airflow Installation

To set up the Access control on the Airflow UI:

a. Update the Configuration file
airflow.cfg file (should be available in ~/airflow/ directory) with the below entry.

rbac = True

b. run the below on your terminal

airflow

the above step will create webserver_config.py file in your $AIRFLOW_HOME location.

most probably, you do not have to make any changes to the webserver_config.py file. If you want to make changes, please refer Authentication section of FAB docs.

Now, run the below commands on the terminal

c. run airflow initdb
d. run airflow create_user -r 'admin' -u '' -e '' -f '' -l ''

e. now this will prompt you to enter the password for the user.

Start/Restart the airflow webserver, scheduler, worker.

tattadaa...

Launch the airflow UI url, you will see the Login Screen!