How to keep Airflow Variables when restarting the docker image?

[94929]

In Airflow UI, I created airflow variables via Admin > Variables > Create.
However, every time I restart the docker image, the airflow variables set are disappeared.
So I need to re-create all the variables I created, which is somewhat annoying.

Is there a way to keep those variables (make it non-volatile) so that I can use them even in restarting the docker image?

[foxviii]

Have you tried committing the changes to the docker image and then referencing the committed image in the yaml file?
Commit changes to a docker image: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/commit/
Change yaml file to point to new image - this should be referencing the newly committed image name

[metaver5o]

@jha929 @foxviii hi there, hopefully still in time I dealt with this issue creating a makefile which loads vars copied during build time OR added via docker cp / volumes. Vars could be loaded running make vars

• Dockerfile:
  COPY variables.json /tmp/variables.json

• Makefile:

vars:
	docker compose exec webserver airflow variables -i /tmp/variables.json