Any help would be greatly appreciated! Looking for help on how to run my deployment/flow in a virtual environment that's deployed to the cloud.

What are you running your python in?

no just through normal python -m venv

Best way to do this on Mac or PC is to use Anaconda Navigator, make a new virtualenv using a recent version of python, then open that virtualenv and do your pip install of prefect there

wouldn't that have just one virtual environment for all prefect flows?

Oh yeah I'd use anaconda

I was hoping to have a virtual environment for each flow

That's a lot of virtual environments, potentially. Do you have conflicting python libraries needed for each flow?

If you want to do this you can update your command on your deployment to use the python executable from your env

Ah a proper prefect expert is here. I'll step back now

not at the moment, but as we build more flows I'd like to have the option for a newer flow to use the latest version of a module while not needing to test/upgrade a previous flow that's using an older version

The default command on a deployment is

python -m prefect.engine

which is what will kick off your flow run, get the deployment, execute the pull steps, etc. you'll need to use the python from your existing virtualenv. For example you can change the command to

/Users/jakekaplan/opt/anaconda3/envs/py310/bin/python3 -m prefect.engine

thanks Jake, where do I enter this override command

so it can be both. the work pool generates a template. if you want to hard code the

command

on all deployments that use that work pool, put it on the work pool. if you want to do it on the deployment, you can put in infra overrides

command: ...

oh cool, I'll try it on the deployment

by default

command

is a temptable value (this is a random work pool, just to illustrate)

do you have an example of what I should put in the deployment infra override in the UI?

sure it would look like

{
  "command": "/Users/jakekaplan/opt/anaconda3/envs/py310/bin/python3 -m prefect.engine"
}

except replace it with the path to the python executable from the virutal env you would like to use

thank you!! I'll give it a try and let you and the community know how it goes