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Webserver

This topic describes how to configure Airflow to secure your webserver.

Rendering Airflow UI in a Web Frame from another site

Using Airflow in a web frame is enabled by default. To disable this (and prevent click jacking attacks) set the below:

[webserver]
x_frame_enabled = False
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Sensitive Variable fields

By default, Airflow Value of a variable will be hidden if the key contains any words in (‘password’, ‘secret’, ‘passwd’, ‘authorization’, ‘api_key’, ‘apikey’, ‘access_token’), but can be configured to extend this list by using the following configurations option:

[admin]
hide_sensitive_variable_fields = comma_separated_sensitive_variable_fields_list
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Web Authentication

By default, Airflow requires users to specify a password prior to login. You can use the following CLI commands to create an account:

# create an admin user
airflow users create \
    --username admin \
    --firstname Peter \
    --lastname Parker \
    --role Admin \
    --email spiderman@superhero.org
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It is however possible to switch on authentication by either using one of the supplied backends or creating your own.

Be sure to checkout Experimental REST API Reference for securing the API.

Note

Airflow uses the config parser of Python. This config parser interpolates '%'-signs. Make sure escape any % signs in your config file (but not environment variables) as %%, otherwise Airflow might leak these passwords on a config parser exception to a log.

Password

One of the simplest mechanisms for authentication is requiring users to specify a password before logging in.

Please use command line interface airflow users create to create accounts, or do that in the UI.

Other Methods

Standing on the shoulder of underlying framework Flask-AppBuilder, Airflow also supports authentication methods like OAuth, OpenID, LDAP, REMOTE_USER. You can configure in $AIRFLOW_HOME/webserver_config.py. For details, please refer to Security section of FAB documentation.

SSL

SSL can be enabled by providing a certificate and key. Once enabled, be sure to use "https://" in your browser.

[webserver]
web_server_ssl_cert = <path to cert>
web_server_ssl_key = <path to key>
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Enabling SSL will not automatically change the web server port. If you want to use the standard port 443, you'll need to configure that too. Be aware that super user privileges (or cap_net_bind_service on Linux) are required to listen on port 443.

# Optionally, set the server to listen on the standard SSL port.
web_server_port = 443
base_url = http://<hostname or IP>:443
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Enable CeleryExecutor with SSL. Ensure you properly generate client and server certs and keys.

[celery]
ssl_active = True
ssl_key = <path to key>
ssl_cert = <path to cert>
ssl_cacert = <path to cacert>
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