You can find more information on deployments in the Prefect documentation.
As for POST requests, it seems that the documentation doesn't directly cover kicking off a deployment using a POST request. However, you might be able to interact with the Prefect API directly to achieve this. Just remember, with great power comes great responsibility... or something like that.
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