To organize different environments in Prefect Cloud, such as development and production, you can use workspaces and work pools to create isolated environments for your workflows.
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Workspaces: A workspace is an isolated environment within Prefect Cloud, and you can have separate workspaces for development and production. Each workspace can have its own flow runs, flows, deployments, work pools, blocks, and storage. You can configure and use workspaces to separate your environments.
Workspaces Documentation
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Work Pools: Work pools (also referred to as work queues) allow you to manage which workers should execute which flow runs. You can create separate work pools for development and production and configure deployments to use the appropriate work pool, ensuring that flows run in their designated environment. This could help you control which flows are executed by specific worker machines or groups of workers.
Work Pools Documentation
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Blocks: Blocks in Prefect can be used to manage different configurations and secrets necessary for your workflows. You can define different blocks for dev and production environments, allowing you to pull different blocks/secrets based on the environment the workflow is running in.
Blocks Documentation
When configuring your workflows, you will want to ensure that each environment's blocks and worker pools are correctly set up so they're pointing to the right resources and secrets for that specific environment.
Finally, always ensure that your development and production workflows are appropriately tagged or labeled so you can easily manage and monitor them within each workspace. Remember to maintain good practices for environment configuration to avoid any overlaps or misconfigurations that could cause issues.