Hi! We are noticing that

build_from_flow

uploads the entire directory to storage rather than just the file that we want to deploy. Is there a workaround for this? We'd like to just upload the single file rather than the entire directory.... Thanks!

have you got a .prefectignore file

Yes. We have that file.

as the root of this folder?

The

.prefectignore

file is in the root of the project/folder, yes.

sorry if this is a silly question @Cody Frisby but do you have the patterns you want to avoid uploading defined in the

.prefectignore

file?

Maybe my question isn't clear. We are noticing that when we run something like

python /path/to/flow.py --deploy

that is uploads the entire directory to cloud storage. Whereas we would expect Prefect's

build_from_flow

to only upload the

flow.py

file to cloud storage and not the entire directory other than what is in the

.prefectignore

file.

By default, Prefect uploads all files in the current folder to the configured storage location (local by default) when you build a deployment.

If you want to omit certain files or directories from your deployments, add a

.prefectignore

file to the root directory.

.prefectignore

enables users to omit certain files or directories from their deployments.

Similar to other

.ignore

files, the syntax supports pattern matching, so an entry of

*.pyc

will ensure all

.pyc

files are ignored by the deployment call when uploading to remote storage.

from the docs, all files in the current folder will be uploaded - so you have to define patterns (like gitignore) in the .prefectignore file that you do not want to be uploaded

Yep. I guess there's not an option to ONLY upload the file in the command. Thanks for your help!

I see, i think you're right - don't believe there's an option for that right now