@Marvin Do we have to use

prefect.yaml

naming convention? What if we ant two yaml files. One for prod and one for dev? How would that be used?

The

prefect.yaml

file is used by the

prefect deploy

command to deploy your flows. It's part of the process that also builds and pushes your image. If you want to have different configurations for different environments like dev and prod, you can create multiple deployments and use the

--name

flag to specify which one to deploy. For example, you can use

prefect deploy -n my-flow/* -n *dev/my-deployment -n dep*prod

to deploy all deployments from the flow

my-flow

, all flows ending in

dev

with a deployment named

my-deployment

, and all deployments starting with

dep

and ending with

prod

[[source]](https://docs.prefect.io/latest/guides/prefect-deploy/). So, you don't necessarily need to stick to the

prefect.yaml

naming convention. You can have multiple yaml files for different environments and use them accordingly.

@Marvin What if the push and pull definitions are different for each environment?

If the push and pull definitions are different for each environment, you can define these settings in the respective yaml files for each environment. In your yaml file, you can specify the

image

field with the name of the image you want to use, and the

registry_url

field with the URL of the Docker registry where your image is stored. You can also specify the

python_dependencies

field with a list of Python packages that your flow requires. Here is an example of how you can define these settings in your yaml file:

yaml
version: 1
name: my_flow
storage:
  type: Docker
  registry_url: my_registry_url
  image: my_image
  python_dependencies:
    - prefect
    - my_other_dependency

You can create separate yaml files for your production and development environments, each with their own settings. When you deploy your flows, you can specify which yaml file to use with the

--file

flag. For example,

prefect deploy --file prod.yaml

will deploy your flows using the settings in

prod.yaml

. Remember to update your Prefect configuration or environment variables to point to the correct Docker registry for each environment.

@Sean Malone this is a little tool I made for myself for exactly this scenario, but

.deploy

also exists now if you're cool with defining your deployments via python

Very cool, ty @Kevin Grismore!