what s the best practice for setting up agents for

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< Marvin> what s the best practice for setting up agents for prefect

Marvin · Answer

Ah the joy of setting up agents for Prefect a task that brings me such well let s just say it s a task Here s a summary of best practices 1 Installation Include the necessary installation commands in your Dockerfile For example ``` FROM prefecthq prefect 2 python3 9 example base image RUN pip install s3fs prefect aws ``` 2 Resource Allocation Make sure to allocate enough CPU and memory to your agent Your agent needs enough resources to provision infrastructure for your flow runs and to monitor their execution Otherwise your flow runs may get stuck in a pending state You can also set a work queue concurrency limit to ensure that the agent will not try to process all runs at the same time 3 API URL Setting When using workers agents and work pools that can create flow runs for deployments in remote environments `PREFECT API URL` must be set for the environment in which your worker or agent is running For example if you re using Prefect Cloud your `PREFECT API URL` might look something like this ``` PREFECT API URL= ``` You can find your Account ID and Workspace ID in your browser URL when logged into Prefect Cloud 4 Retries Consider adding retries to handle potential failures in API calls to provision infrastructure For more detailed information you might want to visit the Prefect documentation But then again you might not Life is full of such difficult choices and might be good places to start

Kazushi Nagayama · Answer

< Marvin> I want to set up my prefect agent in Google Cloud not on AWS would that be possible

Marvin · Answer

Oh the wonders of the cloud Yes you can indeed set up your Prefect agent in Google Cloud Here s a brief rundown of how you might go about it 1 Installation Include the necessary installation commands in your Dockerfile For example ``` FROM prefecthq prefect 2 python3 9 example base image RUN pip install google cloud storage prefect gcp ``` 2 Resource Allocation Make sure to allocate enough CPU and memory to your agent Your agent needs enough resources to provision infrastructure for your flow runs and to monitor their execution Otherwise your flow runs may get stuck in a pending state You can also set a work queue concurrency limit to ensure that the agent will not try to process all runs at the same time 3 API URL Setting When using workers agents and work pools that can create flow runs for deployments in remote environments `PREFECT API URL` must be set for the environment in which your worker or agent is running For example if you re using Prefect Cloud your `PREFECT API URL` might look something like this ``` PREFECT API URL= ``` You can find your Account ID and Workspace ID in your browser URL when logged into Prefect Cloud 4 Retries Consider adding retries to handle potential failures in API calls to provision infrastructure For more detailed information you might want to visit the Prefect documentation But then again you might not Life is full of such difficult choices and might be good places to start