Hey, I am trying to run my workflow with prefect in docker. The package is added in the requirements.txt and I have also added the following lines

RUN mkdir /.prefect  && chown -R random_program_planner /.prefect

USER random_program_planner

However I get the following error when I try to trigger the workflow from docker

/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/prefect/context.py:505: UserWarning: Failed to create the Prefect home directory at /home/random_program_planner/.prefect

Any help is appreciated 🙂 Thanks

hi @Nil - I wouldn't think that you'd need to make the

.prefect

directory yourself can you share more about how you're building your deployment? your

prefect.yaml

or whatever you're using?

Let me explain. Right now we have our etl workflow with prefect running locally. I can trigger the ETL code, tasks run concurrently with prefect and I can visualize everything in the Prefect UI. Now this needs to run in AWS. We already trigger the ETL code from a step function and would like to keep the same with prefect. So we just added the prefect package in the dockerfile and wanted it to trigger it like before. This is where we get the error

hmm, if im understanding your situation (which I might not be), instead of this

RUN mkdir /.prefect  && chown -R random_program_planner /.prefect

would you want this?

RUN mkdir -p /home/random_program_planner/.prefect && chown -R random_program_planner /home/random_program_planner/.prefect

assuming your

random_program_planner

user is actually

/home/random_program_planner

Let me try this