diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 59b2f655572adf2a02ba05ba878666d89ef9c793..5c7f1f8d05f486a1d54d525bb9eddc7156608a14 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ eFlows4HPC Data Logistics Service
 
 
 ```
-mkdir ./logs ./plugins
-echo -e "AIRFLOW_UID=$(id -u)\nAIRFLOW_GID=0" > .env
+mkdir ./logs
+echo -e "AIRFLOW_UID=$(id -u)" > .env
 reqs=`cat requirements.txt | tr '\n' ' '`
 echo "_PIP_ADDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS=$reqs" >> .env
 
diff --git a/dags/taskflow.py b/dags/taskflow.py
index c0153ed3d415f23bdf2adb6e9128132694919f84..c86066f98a352dd536dc1e92fbb1be129f1b29d6 100644
--- a/dags/taskflow.py
+++ b/dags/taskflow.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from airflow.decorators import dag, task
 from airflow.models.connection import Connection
 from airflow.providers.ssh.hooks.ssh import SSHHook
+from airflow.models import Variable
 from airflow.utils.dates import days_ago
 import os
 
@@ -39,9 +40,12 @@ def taskflow_example():
     @task(multiple_outputs=True)
     def transform(flist: dict):
         name_mappings = {}
+        tmp_dir = Variable.get("working_dir", default_var='/tmp/')
+        print(f"Local working dir is: {tmp_dir}")
+        
         for fname, url in flist.items():
             print(f"Processing: {fname} --> {url}")
-            tmpname = download_file(url=url, target_dir='/tmp/')
+            tmpname = download_file(url=url, target_dir=tmp_dir)
             name_mappings[fname] = tmpname
         return name_mappings
 
diff --git a/dockers/connections.json b/dockers/connections.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..232a3bfa48c3b0353d3aca016d0db544637523d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dockers/connections.json
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{
+  "default_b2share": {
+    "conn_type": "https",
+    "description": null,
+    "host": "b2share-testing.fz-juelich.de",
+    "login": null,
+    "password": null,
+    "schema": "",
+    "port": null,
+    "extra": null
+  },
+  "default_ssh": {
+    "conn_type": "ssh",
+    "description": null,
+    "host": "openssh-server",
+    "login": "eflows",
+    "password": "rand",
+    "schema": null,
+    "port": 2222,
+    "extra": null
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dockers/docker-compose.yaml b/dockers/docker-compose.yaml
index b3c5e7b42b10362cf005e1434a2490930f7fbc8c..24c78d4b44dc381c2382b39ca5ffea88c6c44a14 100644
--- a/dockers/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/dockers/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ x-airflow-common:
     AIRFLOW__CORE__DAGS_ARE_PAUSED_AT_CREATION: 'true'
     AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES: 'false'
     AIRFLOW__API__AUTH_BACKEND: 'airflow.api.auth.backend.basic_auth'
-    _AIRFLOW_WWW_USER_PASSWORD: 'somepass'
     _PIP_ADDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS: ${_PIP_ADDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS:-}
   volumes:
     - ./dags:/opt/airflow/dags
+    - ./config/airflow.cfg:/opt/airflow/airflow.cfg
     - ./logs:/opt/airflow/logs
     - ./plugins:/opt/airflow/plugins
-    - ./config/airflow.cfg:/opt/airflow/airflow.cfg
+    - ./templates/main.html:/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/www/templates/airflow/main.html
   user: "${AIRFLOW_UID:-50000}:0"
   depends_on:
     &airflow-common-depends-on
@@ -102,13 +102,9 @@ services:
     command: webserver
     ports:
       - 7001:8080
-    volumes: 
-      - ./templates/footer.html:/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/www/templates/appbuilder/footer.html
-      - ./templates/main.html:/home/airflow/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/airflow/www/templates/airflow/main.html
-      - ./config/airflow.cfg:/opt/airflow/airflow.cfg
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD", "curl", "--fail", "http://localhost:8080/health"]
-      interval: 10s
+      interval: 60s
       timeout: 10s
       retries: 5
     restart: always
@@ -122,7 +118,7 @@ services:
     command: scheduler
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD-SHELL", 'airflow jobs check --job-type SchedulerJob --hostname "$${HOSTNAME}"']
-      interval: 10s
+      interval: 60s
       timeout: 10s
       retries: 5
     restart: always
@@ -138,7 +134,7 @@ services:
       test:
         - "CMD-SHELL"
         - 'celery --app airflow.executors.celery_executor.app inspect ping -d "celery@$${HOSTNAME}"'
-      interval: 10s
+      interval: 30s
       timeout: 10s
       retries: 5
     environment:
@@ -147,6 +143,11 @@ services:
       # See https://airflow.apache.org/docs/docker-stack/entrypoint.html#signal-propagation
       DUMB_INIT_SETSID: "0"
     restart: always
+    volumes:
+      - ./dags:/opt/airflow/dags
+      - ./config/airflow.cfg:/opt/airflow/airflow.cfg
+      - ./logs:/opt/airflow/logs
+      - ./tmp/:/work/
     depends_on:
       <<: *airflow-common-depends-on
       airflow-init:
@@ -157,9 +158,14 @@ services:
     command: triggerer
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD-SHELL", 'airflow jobs check --job-type TriggererJob --hostname "$${HOSTNAME}"']
-      interval: 10s
+      interval: 60s
       timeout: 10s
       retries: 5
+    environment:
+      <<: *airflow-common-env
+      # Required to handle warm shutdown of the celery workers properly
+      # See https://airflow.apache.org/docs/docker-stack/entrypoint.html#signal-propagation
+      DUMB_INIT_SETSID: "0"
     restart: always
     depends_on:
       <<: *airflow-common-depends-on
@@ -256,17 +262,19 @@ services:
       - -c
       - airflow
 
-  flower:
+  airflow-setup:
     <<: *airflow-common
-    command: celery flower
-    ports:
-      - 5555:5555
-    healthcheck:
-      test: ["CMD", "curl", "--fail", "http://localhost:5555/"]
-      interval: 10s
-      timeout: 10s
-      retries: 5
-    restart: always
+    environment:
+      <<: *airflow-common-env
+      CONNECTION_CHECK_MAX_COUNT: "0"
+    entrypoint: /bin/bash
+    command:
+      - -c
+      - |
+        exec /entrypoint airflow variables import /opt/airflow/variables.json
+        echo "Variables added"
+    volumes:
+      - ./dockers/variables.json:/opt/airflow/variables.json
     depends_on:
       <<: *airflow-common-depends-on
       airflow-init:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 240d00f906211bb0f8dad8dc7426a58b99fea37f..aeecd2f8a68c7beca6f3259e5c3642f6349f8984 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 requests
 urllib3==1.26.6
+plyvel
 apache-airflow-providers-ssh
 apache-airflow-providers-http
 apache-airflow-providers-sftp
diff --git a/templates/footer.html b/templates/footer.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 442715dc62e970cc309627fa838c814440cc9a17..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/templates/footer.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-{% block footer %}
-<footer class="footer d-inlign-flex" style="background-image: url(https://eflows4hpc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Barra-gris-footer.png) !important; height: auto; color: #575756 !important;">
-    <div class="container p-0">
-      <div class="p-0 w-100" style="background-image: url(https://eflows4hpc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/barra-3-color-8.png) !important; width: 100%; height: 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover"></div>
-      <div class="row mt-2 px-3">
-        <div class="col-lg-6 col-12 d-inlign-flex">
-          <p class="m-3 text-center align-self-center">
-            <a href="https://www.eFlows4HPC.eu">
-              <img src="https://eflows4hpc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/logo-blanc_1-1.svg" alt="eFlows4HPC Logo" title="eFlows4HPC" style="height: auto; max-height: 70px;" class="m-4 align-self-center"/>
-            </a>
-            <a href="https://twitter.com/eFlows4HPC"><i class="fa fa-twitter-square m-4 fa-2x" style="color: white"></i></a>
-            <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/eflows4hpc/"><i class="fa fa-linkedin-square  mr-4 fa-2x" style="color: white"></i></a>
-            <a href="https://gitlab.jsc.fz-juelich.de/eflows4hpc-wp2/data-logistics-service/"><i class="fa fa-github-square mr-4 fa-2x" style="color: white"></i></a>
-          </p>
-        </div>
-        <div class="col-lg-6 col-12 d-inlign-flex">
-          <p class="m-2 align-self-center" style="color: white">
-            <span class="mr-3 mt-1 float-left">
-              <img loading="lazy" src="https://eflows4hpc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bandera-8.png" alt="" style="max-width:52px; max-height:34px">
-            </span>
-            <small style="display: flow-root">
-              This work has been supported by the eFlows4HPC project, contract #955558. This project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 955558.
-              <br>
-              The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Norway. 
-              <strong>
-              <a style="color: #f39200" href="https://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/EN/Service/LegalNotice/_node.html">Impressum</a>
-              </strong>
-            </small>
-            <div class="row mt-4 pl-5">
-              <p style="border-top: 1px solid darkgray;"><small>This service is based on Apache Airflow {{ version_label }}: {% if airflow_version %}<a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-airflow/{{ airflow_version }}" target="_blank">v{{ airflow_version }}</a>{% else %} N/A{% endif %}</small></p>
-            </div>
-          </p>
-        </div>
-      </div>
-    </div>
-</footer>
-{% endblock %}
diff --git a/templates/main.html b/templates/main.html
index 187275c5a77b89463ed2fb39807e074138c7c7f8..69d1670d715efc7ca4bb82145a784bcae2733394 100644
--- a/templates/main.html
+++ b/templates/main.html
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #}
 
 {% extends 'appbuilder/baselayout.html' %}
+{% from 'airflow/_messages.html' import message %}
 
 {% block page_title -%}
   {% if title is defined -%}
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@
 {% block messages %}
   {% include 'appbuilder/flash.html' %}
   {% if scheduler_job is defined and (not scheduler_job or not scheduler_job.is_alive()) %}
-    <div class="alert alert-warning">
+    {% call message(category='warning', dismissable=false) %}
       <p>The scheduler does not appear to be running.
       {% if scheduler_job %}
       Last heartbeat was received
@@ -63,15 +64,61 @@
       {% endif %}
       </p>
       <p>The DAGs list may not update, and new tasks will not be scheduled.</p>
-    </div>
+    {% endcall %}
+  {% endif %}
+  {% if triggerer_job is defined and (not triggerer_job or not triggerer_job.is_alive()) %}
+    {% call message(category='warning', dismissable=false) %}
+      <p>The triggerer does not appear to be running.
+      {% if triggerer_job %}
+      Last heartbeat was received
+      <time class="scheduler-last-heartbeat"
+        title="{{ triggerer_job.latest_heartbeat.isoformat() }}"
+        datetime="{{ triggerer_job.latest_heartbeat.isoformat() }}"
+        data-datetime-convert="false"
+      >{{ macros.datetime_diff_for_humans(triggerer_job.latest_heartbeat) }}</time>.
+      {% endif %}
+      </p>
+      <p>Triggers will not run, and any deferred operator will remain deferred until it times out and fails.</p>
+    {% endcall %}
   {% endif %}
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block footer %}
-  {% if not current_user.is_anonymous %}
-    {% set version_label = 'Version' %}
-    {% include 'appbuilder/footer.html' %}
-  {% endif %}
+<footer class="footer" style="background-image: url(https://eflows4hpc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Barra-gris-footer.png) !important; height: auto; color: #575756 !important;">
+    <div class="container">
+      <div class="p-0 w-100" style="background-image: url(https://eflows4hpc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/barra-3-color-8.png) !important; width: 100%; height: 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover"></div>
+      <div class="row mt-2 px-3">
+        <div class="col-lg-6 col-12 d-inlign-flex">
+          <p class="m-3 text-center align-self-center">
+            <a href="https://www.eFlows4HPC.eu">
+              <img src="https://eflows4hpc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/logo-blanc_1-1.svg" alt="eFlows4HPC Logo" title="eFlows4HPC" style="height: auto; max-height: 70px;" class="m-4 align-self-center"/>
+            </a>
+            <a href="https://twitter.com/eFlows4HPC"><i class="fa fa-twitter-square m-4 fa-2x" style="color: white"></i></a>
+            <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/eflows4hpc/"><i class="fa fa-linkedin-square  mr-4 fa-2x" style="color: white"></i></a>
+            <a href="https://gitlab.jsc.fz-juelich.de/eflows4hpc-wp2/data-logistics-service/"><i class="fa fa-github-square mr-4 fa-2x" style="color: white"></i></a>
+          </p>
+        </div>
+        <div class="col-lg-6 col-12 d-inlign-flex">
+          <p class="m-2 align-self-center" style="color: white">
+            <span class="mr-3 mt-1 float-left">
+              <img loading="lazy" src="https://eflows4hpc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bandera-8.png" alt="" style="max-width:52px; max-height:34px">
+            </span>
+            <small style="display: flow-root">
+              This work has been supported by the eFlows4HPC project, contract #955558. This project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 955558.
+              <br>
+              The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Norway. 
+              <strong>
+              <a style="color: #f39200" href="https://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/EN/Service/LegalNotice/_node.html">Impressum</a>
+              </strong>
+            </small>
+            <div class="row mt-4 pl-5">
+              <p style="border-top: 1px solid darkgray;"><small>This service is based on Apache Airflow {{ version_label }}: {% if airflow_version %}<a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-airflow/{{ airflow_version }}" target="_blank">v{{ airflow_version }}</a>{% else %} N/A{% endif %}</small></p>
+            </div>
+          </p>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+</footer>
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block tail_js %}