Deploying Prefect on Minikube can be relatively straightforward, although I couldn't find documentation specifically catered to Minikube. However, the process for deploying on Kubernetes should be quite similar, and you can likely adapt the general Kubernetes instructions to fit a Minikube context. Bear in mind that Minikube is a simplified environment designed for development and testing, therefore deploying Prefect in a production setting would require more robust Kubernetes infrastructure.
To deploy Prefect on Kubernetes, which you can do with Minikube, the high-level steps are as follows (source:
Prefect docs):
1. Set up a Kubernetes cluster (in your case, via Minikube).
2. Create a container registry if needed (you may use a local registry for Minikube).
3. Authenticate to Prefect with the CLI.
4. Build your Prefect flows and Docker images containing your flow code.
5. Push your images to the container registry.
6. Configure your flow's infrastructure requirements using a Kubernetes job YAML file.
7. Deploy the flows to your Kubernetes cluster using the Prefect CLI or the UI.
There might be nuances with Minikube such as how to set the docker environment (
eval $(minikube docker-env)
) that are not covered in these general instructions. Please adapt the instructions to your specific needs and consider the limitations of Minikube.