@Marvin is there a way of doing prefect deploy --config ./prefect/prefect.yaml

It seems like there isn't a direct command like

prefect deploy --config ./prefect/prefect.yaml

. However, the

prefect.yaml

file is used to contain configuration information for each deployment. You can create a deployment by running

prefect deploy

from the root of one of your locally cloned repos. For more detailed information, you can check out this discussion on Prefect's forum.

@Marvin in that case please could you shell script it

Sure, here's a simple shell script that you can use to deploy your Prefect flow:

bash
#!/bin/bash

# Navigate to your Prefect directory
cd ./prefect

# Set your Prefect configuration file
export PREFECT__USER_CONFIG_PATH="./prefect.yaml"

# Deploy your Prefect flow
prefect deploy

Please replace

./prefect

and

./prefect.yaml

with the actual paths to your Prefect directory and configuration file. To run the script, save it to a file (for example,

deploy.sh

), make it executable with

chmod +x deploy.sh

, and then run it with

./deploy.sh

. Please note that this script assumes that you have the

prefect

command available in your PATH. If that's not the case, you might need to activate the appropriate environment or use the full path to the

prefect

command.

but that won't give me the right imports

I see, you're concerned about the Python environment in which your Prefect flows are running. If your flows require specific Python packages, you'll need to make sure those packages are installed in the environment where you're running the

prefect

command. If you're using a virtual environment or a Docker container, you should activate that environment or enter the container before running the script. If your

prefect.yaml

file specifies a particular Python environment for your flows, Prefect should use that environment when running the flows. However, the

prefect

command itself needs to be run in an environment where Prefect is installed. Here's an updated version of the script that activates a virtual environment before running the

prefect

command:

bash
#!/bin/bash

# Activate your virtual environment
source /path/to/your/virtual/environment/bin/activate

# Navigate to your Prefect directory
cd ./prefect

# Set your Prefect configuration file
export PREFECT__USER_CONFIG_PATH="./prefect.yaml"

# Deploy your Prefect flow
prefect deploy

Replace

/path/to/your/virtual/environment

with the path to your virtual environment. Again, to run the script, save it to a file (for example,

deploy.sh

), make it executable with

chmod +x deploy.sh

, and then run it with

./deploy.sh

.

@Marvin I have an existing script that looks like this #!/bin/bash mv .prefectignore ../../../.prefectignore mv prefect.yaml ../../../prefect.yaml mv .prefect ../../../.prefect cd ../../../ prefect --no-prompt deploy --all mv .prefectignore src/orchestration/prefect/.prefectignore mv prefect.yaml orchestration/prefect/prefect.yaml mv .prefect orchestration/prefect/.prefect but is there a less hideous way

I see, you're moving configuration files around to run the

prefect deploy

command in a different directory. This can indeed be a bit cumbersome. One way to simplify this is to use symbolic links (symlinks) instead of moving files around. A symlink is a type of file that points to another file or directory. You can create symlinks to your Prefect configuration files in the directory where you want to run

prefect deploy

, and Prefect will follow the symlinks to find the configuration files. Here's how you can modify your script to use symlinks:

bash
#!/bin/bash

# Create symlinks to your Prefect configuration files
ln -s src/orchestration/prefect/.prefectignore .prefectignore
ln -s src/orchestration/prefect/prefect.yaml prefect.yaml
ln -s src/orchestration/prefect/.prefect .prefect

# Deploy your Prefect flow
prefect --no-prompt deploy --all

# Remove the symlinks
rm .prefectignore prefect.yaml .prefect

This script creates symlinks to your Prefect configuration files in the current directory, runs

prefect deploy

, and then removes the symlinks. The original configuration files remain in the

src/orchestration/prefect

directory. Please replace

src/orchestration/prefect

with the actual path to your Prefect directory. To run the script, save it to a file (for example,

deploy.sh

), make it executable with

chmod +x deploy.sh

, and then run it with

./deploy.sh

.