Hey all I’m trying to better understand how the Python SDK works. This script works on my local machine:

import asyncio

from prefect import get_client
from prefect.flow_runs import wait_for_flow_run

async def main():
    async with get_client() as client:
        flow_run = await client.create_flow_run_from_deployment(deployment_id="<DEPLOYMENT_ID>")
        print("create flow run")
        flow_run = await wait_for_flow_run(flow_run_id=flow_run.id)
        print(flow_run.state)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

I don’t understand how it is connecting to prefect cloud though? I don’t have any environment variables set. How would I enable this script to authenticate with my prefect cloud account on any machine e.g. in a cloud VM ? Could someone please explain how the python SDK authenticates to my prefect cloud environment

Hey Daniel! You might find this useful: https://docs.prefect.io/latest/getting-started/quickstart/#step-2-connect-to-prefects-api

Ahh ok cool thank you. I have created a google cloud function script that triggers

create_flow_run_from_deployment

function using the API and python requests library. How would one authenticate using

prefect cloud login

in order to use the python SDK in a google cloud function?

You can configure prefect settings with environment variables

Ah ok great that makes sense. Thank you very much for your help 🙂

Of course! Happy Engineering 😄