Why does celery workers start in Local/Sequential Executor mode ?

[Yogesh Garg]

Hi,

I noticed that even if I use local / sequential executor mode, celery worker gets started on executing "airflow worker" command. I have celery settings in my airflow.cfg though, but wondering why celery is getting started or am I missing something ?

Thanks.

[Jeremiah Lowin]

"airflow worker" is only for use with Celery; it does not have any function when using other executors. I think a PR was recently submitted to make that explicit.

[Yogesh Garg]

Yes, that makes sense. +1 for making it explicit.

Thanks.