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Mikael Nida
07/11/2023, 7:23 PMHi I'm just getting started with Prefect and have some basic questions. Do I have to setup deployments "locally" or in my cloud infra? I need to access the envs for the flow I want to deploy in prefect but not quite sure how to do this deployment.
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Christopher Boyd
07/11/2023, 7:52 PMHi Mikael - you set up prefect workers in the infrastructure / execution environment where the flows will run.
You register deployments and each deployment you specify a work-pool - the work-pool is tied to the worker you set up, to determine how flow runs are picked up
Deployments are saved / registered to your prefect server / prefect cloud, execution happens wherever your workers are running
So you can have a worker running locally with the work-pool named
local_workerlocal_workerkubernetes-remotekubernetes-remoteIt’s probably best to start with just a local worker first to test out the mechanism -
you can check out a helpful start guide here https://docs.prefect.io/latest/tutorial/deployments/#deploying-flows
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Mikael Nida
07/11/2023, 7:55 PMThis is helpful!
So for a prod deployment, I would ssh into my k8s and have to prefect login on there and then create a deployment again
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Christopher Boyd
07/11/2023, 7:57 PMno
your k8s would just run a prefect-worker that you installed from the helm chart which stays listening on a specific work-pool
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you’d just run prefect-deploy locally to register a deployment, the work-pool you specify in the prefect deploy dictates where the flow-run gets picked up
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Mikael Nida
07/11/2023, 7:59 PMAhh got it. Thank you, I'll message here when I run into anything weird!
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Christopher Boyd
07/11/2023, 8:00 PMbasically:
a) Deploy a k8s worker from here - you can use the default or specify a new work-pool name
b) run prefect deploy for your flow - specify the work-pool from your k8s worker
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