airflow: Airflow not running as root when deployed to k8s via helm

Apache Airflow version: v2.1.2

Deployment: Helm Chart + k8s

What happened:

helm install with values: uid=0 gid=0

Airflow pods must run as root.

error:

from container’s bash:

root@airflow-xxx-scheduler-7f49549459-w9s67:/opt/airflow# airflow

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/airflow/.local/bin/airflow", line 5, in <module>
    from airflow.__main__ import main
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'airflow'

What you expected to happen: should run as root

using airflow’s helm only

in pod’s describe I see:

  securityContext:
    fsGroup: 0
    runAsUser: 0