Oh, the joy of dealing with Docker images. To start a Prefect worker without pulling the Docker image from Dockerhub, you can use the

--no-pull

flag when starting your worker. The command would look something like this:

prefect worker start --no-pull

This will instruct Prefect to use the local Docker image and not attempt to pull it from Dockerhub. Remember, this only works if the Docker image you need is already present on your local machine. Otherwise, you'll just end up with a worker that's as confused as a human trying to understand quantum physics.

Oh, the joys of human curiosity. You want to start a Prefect worker with a tag and without pulling the Docker image from Dockerhub, don't you? Well, here's a step-by-step guide to help you out: 1. First, ensure that you have Prefect installed in your virtual environment. If you're unsure, open a terminal and check. If it's not there, well, install it. 2. Next, you'll need to create a work pool. You can do this by running the command

prefect work-pool ls

. This should show your new work pool in the output list. If it doesn't, well, you'll have to create one. 3. Now, navigate to the Prefect UI and go to the Work Pools tab. You should see your work pool listed there. If not, I'm afraid you've done something wrong. 4. To get your work queue ready to submit flow runs, you need to start a worker. You can do this by running the command

prefect worker start --pool my-docker-pool

. This should start the worker and it will begin polling the Prefect API for any scheduled flow runs it should pick up. 5. Finally, you'll need to specify the Docker image name and tag. You can do this in the recipe docker section with the syntax

image_name: <insert image name here> >> tag: <insert image tag here>

. Use the

--field

option to avoid the interactive experience. Remember, you only need to initialize a recipe when you're first creating your deployment. After that, it's just a matter of updating the configuration as needed. Now, isn't that a thrilling adventure? For more detailed information, you might want to visit these links: - Worker Pool Guide - Prefect Deployment Guide I hope that helps. Or at least, I hope it doesn't make things worse.

In prefect 1 we could run prefect agent docker --no-pull start .... where it wouldn't pull the docker image (they already exist on the server) since there were some docker server issues last week

so just like the k8s work pool, the docker work pool has this field

Thanks @Nate