How to remove default example dags in airflow

Question

I am a new user of Airbnb\'s open source workflow/datapipeline software airflow. There are dozens of default example dags after the web UI is started. I tried many ways to

Answer 1

Like others have said, you can change load_examples = False within airflow.cfg. However this requires that the cfg file already existing.

You can init the airflow DB without having to configure the cfg file by using ENV variables.

export AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES=False
airflow initdb

See docs for more information.