using celery flower in docker-compose with auth

Question

I'm executing celery flower image mher/flower with docker-compose I want to setup auth for same, I tried adding environment variable basic_auth, however that's not working.

Is there any way to setup creds for flower

Answer 1

One way I found was to use command like

command: "--basic_auth=admin:admin"

Answer 2

Add the following to the flower service in your docker compose file to use basic auth:

environment:
  - FLOWER_BASIC_AUTH=username:password