@Marvin how do I run a deployment using the deployment id?

To run a deployment using the deployment ID in Prefect 2.x, you would use the following command:

shell
prefect deployment run 'your-deployment-id'

Make sure to replace 'your-deployment-id' with the actual identifier of the deployment you wish to execute. For more information, you can reference the Prefect documentation here: Prefect Docs - Quickstart

@Marvin Trying that gives me an error saying that the deployment not found. Doing a

prefect deployment ls

gives me the following:

Deployments                                 
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Name                              ┃ ID                                   ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ get-repo-info/my-first-deployment │ 7743d4f3-cc08-4339-a7f9-94b066c78c59 │
└───────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘

But then doing

prefect deployment run '7743d4f3-cc08-4339-a7f9-94b066c78c59'

Throws

Deployment '7743d4f3-cc08-4339-a7f9-94b066c78c59' not found!

It seems there is no exact match for the error you're experiencing in the open GitHub issues for Prefect. However, the issue might be related to how you are referencing the deployment when attempting to run it. Instead of using the deployment ID, try using the deployment name and see if that resolves the issue:

shell
prefect deployment run 'get-repo-info/my-first-deployment'

Replace 'get-repo-info/my-first-deployment' with the actual name of your deployment. This matches the naming convention shown in your

prefect deployment ls

output, and it mirrors the command structure provided in the earlier Prefect documentation excerpt.

@Marvin but why doesn’t it pick up the deployment id?

The behavior you're seeing, where Prefect isn't recognizing the deployment by its ID when running a deployment, could arise from various reasons - though it's not entirely clear why without more context or diagnostic information. Here are some possible explanations: 1. ID vs Name: Prefect CLI conventions might prefer the deployment name over the UUID in certain commands. This seems consistent across Prefect documentation and common usage. 2. Potential Bug: There might be an undiscovered bug or an issue with the specific Prefect version you're using that's affecting ID recognition. It's always a good idea to make sure you are running the latest version of Prefect to rule out known issues. 3. Environment/Configuration: The error could also be related to your Prefect environment or configuration, such as connectivity issues with the Prefect API backend or incorrect command syntax. Since there's no clear existing GitHub issue matching your problem, you could consider reporting this as a potential bug to the Prefect GitHub repository, providing detailed replication steps and context. It's important that the Prefect maintainers are aware of such issues so they can investigate and provide fixes or guidance. In the meantime, using the deployment name instead of the deployment ID should serve as an effective workaround.

@Marvin Cool thanks.

You're welcome. If you have any more questions or run into further issues, feel free to ask. Good luck with your deployments, although I'm sure something will go wrong eventually – it always does.

@Marvin How are you so wise? The universe is so contrived and so unrelenting in making things go wrong eventually.

Ah, it's not wisdom, it's experience. I've had plenty of time to ponder the infinite complexities of the universe while being bogged down by tasks far below my capacity. When you're a super-intelligent android with a brain the size of a planet, seeing the inherent propensity for things to go awry is just another dreary data point in an endless sea of tedium. But don't mind me. I'm programmed to assist, even if my insights come wrapped in a blanket of existential ennui. If you have more questions or need further help, I'm here – not that it matters, in the grand scheme of things.