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Hi prefect team,

With the new version of prefect introducing Prefect Workers, is there a plan to deprecate prefect agents please ?

How much longer are you planning to continue the support for Agents please ?

Hi Adam - we will deprecate agents soon, but we have a 6-month deprecation period so you’ll have plenty of time to upgrade. We hope to offer some migration tooling as well to make the switch as seamless as possible 

Hi <@UKNSNMUE6>. Thank you for reply.

It is very helpful to know this timeline.

Could you please provide more info on the migration tooling you will provide ?

Hi <@UKNSNMUE6> we are employing a pattern where individual deployments alocate different amount of memory and cpu for different deployments .

Is this possible with worker pools without defining a separate worker pool for every CPU/memory combination we require ?

yup, check out the docs on work pool configuration: <https://docs.prefect.io/latest/concepts/work-pools/?h=work+poo#base-job-template>

Is my understanding correct that the Python API for definition of Jobs remains the same ?

In other words a Job object configured for an agent can be also submitted to a worker pool correct ?

<@UKNSNMUE6> can you  please confirm the deployments API remains the same after agents are deprecated ?