Hello, I just have a quick question. Can I use Prefect without spawning a server? I am looking for a tool to run a one-off workflow (think a glorified

make

), and wondering if Prefect is a good fit

yes!

But I need it to run offline

gotcha, so you could use the ephemeral API and not run a server - meaning just

pip install prefect

and then wrap a python function in

@flow

which will start writing all the state changes to a sqlite on disk

Does it have console logging?

yep it does!

I am trying to see if prefect can be used for running experiments, aggregating results, and making analysis, so I don't really need a UI

hello world

wait_for

and

.map

with tasks task runners

Can I make sure some tasks run exclusively with no other concurrent task?

a good chunk of our feature set more or less requires a server, but the core stuff like composing tasks (into a flow or subflow) and adding retries / caching etc doesn't i will say that the ephemeral api isn't meant for scale though, so at some point you may find you'd need a server (which can run without internet connection by the way) and yep

I see. Thank you