Ideally the CLI and WebUI should both access an API that handles authentication 
and authorization. This would resolve both issues. However, the UI already 
allows for authentication and to a lesser extent authorization. Thus allowing 
this from the UI (which we already do for Celery) is not a big change.

- Bolke


> Op 7 jul. 2016, om 11:01 heeft Alexander Alten-Lorenz <[email protected]> 
> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Sounds good, but on the other hand I'm with Maxime. Given that the task can 
> be triggered per CLI, the functionality is available but needs a local login. 
> When the "run" button now would be available for everyone who has access to 
> the UI, I can imagine that would cause some serious load issues in a 
> production environment, especially with SLA based workflow setups. 
> On the other hand, when the "run" button with a local executor would queue 
> the task in a control queue (like "external triggered") a admin could finally 
> mark them as "approved". 
> 
> --alex
> 
>> On Jul 7, 2016, at 12:12 AM, Jeremiah Lowin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Perhaps it's a good chance to revisit the functionality. Right now the UI
>> "run" button actually runs the task via CeleryExecutor. Perhaps instead (or
>> just when using a non-Celery executor) it should queue the task and let the
>> Scheduler pick it up. I guess in that case it would just be sugar for
>> marking a TI as QUEUED. Just a thought.
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:54 AM Maxime Beauchemin <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> The problem is that a web server isn't the right place to run an airflow
>>> task. From the context of the web request scope we have to somehow pass a
>>> message to an external executor to run the task. For LocalExecutor to work
>>> the web server would have to start a LocalExecutor as a sub process and
>>> that doesn't sound like a great idea...
>>> 
>>> Max
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Jason Chen <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Airflow team,
>>>> I am using the "LocalExecutor" and it works very well to run the
>>> workflow
>>>> I setup.
>>>> 
>>>> I noticed that, from the UI, it can trigger a task to run.
>>>> However, I got the error "Only works with the CeleryExecutor, sorry ".
>>>> I can ssh into airflow node and run the command line from there.
>>>> However, it would be nice to just run it from airflow UI.
>>>> Is it possible to do that (with "LocalExecutor") or it's a future feature
>>>> to consider ?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Jason
>>>> 
>>> 
> 

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