Alternatively, if I just wanted to skip running the UI myself but still want to use the local compute my team has access to, is using Prefect Cloud a reasonable thing to set up for that purpose?

> Alternatively, if I just wanted to skip running the UI myself but still want to use the local compute my team has access to, is using Prefect Cloud a reasonable thing to set up for that purpose? yes! prefect cloud will host your orchestration server (i.e. your workspace) but allow you to bring your own compute for flow runs so for example, you could run a docker worker on your local compute and point deployments at that so that flow runs execute as containers there, or if you're not into containerization you could simply `.serve` a flow there and let it run as a process either way, your flow runs (running in your infra) would use the

PREFECT_API_URL

to connect to Prefect Cloud and report state / do orchestration without you running

prefect server start

anywhere

But in the meantime, even running

prefect config validate

is erroring out with the same message...

@Nate Just circling back- I'm finding that on my infrastructure I can't run any prefect commands at all without the aforementioned

Unknown setting REFECT_ORION_API_HOST

error being thrown, including

prefect cloud login

and

prefect config validate

How can I just start my profile on this cluster from scratch? uninstalling/reinstalling prefect has not helped.

can you check where env vars would be set?