Hi everyone evaluating Prefect and hoping to get your advice

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Hi everyone evaluating Prefect and hoping to get your advice on getting to a working cloud POC as fast as possible Our situation Mostly Windows Azure shop Preference to run on Windows all else equal but can work with Linux VMs if necessary We have nothing in our ecosystem yet running on VMs serverless only and no Docker Kubernetes setup How would you suggest we set up a POC that deploys and runs flows on Azure and connects to Prefect Cloud POC should include demo for publishing and running flows to Azure from local dev machines Primary goal is to set up as fast as possible Set up on a bare VM Install and run under Docker Try Azure AKS no experience at present with Kubernetes AKS but can be good case to acquire such experience in house Thanks much in advance

Mason Menges · Answer

Hey < Oleg Sheyner> Not super familiar with Azure But I d start by checking out these docs they should help get you in the right direction

Chris Reuter · Answer

< Christopher Boyd> is our resident Azure pro and may have some advice

Christopher Boyd · Answer

Hey < Oleg Sheyner> I think setting up through AKS isn t too much trouble and I have some public recipes in prefecthq prefect recipes to deploy an AKS cluster and the prefect agent environment With that said it s not up to date with GA and I need to update it I have some additional content that I m working on for deploying the server agent to Kubernetes For the most part it s pretty straightforward to get a basic setup through running the prefect agent generating a manifest and applying it via kubectl apply f

Christopher Boyd · Answer

Notably the prefect recipe I linked you can use as is for the terraform aspect just to deploy your infrastructure The prefect steps themselves steps 6 and on in the readme I need to go back over and confirm they are still accurate but our documentation should be sufficient to apply the manifest from there

Christopher Boyd · Answer

At a high level it would involve Deploying your cluster Configuring your storage if using 2 0 unfortunately we don t have Azure blocks available just yet but are in progress Starting your agent this can be run either locally or in cluster Local is simple to setup in cluster I have a document that is a work in progress but there is an example manifest I shared yesterday to get it running Creating your deployment Running your deployment

Oleg Sheyner · Answer

< Christopher Boyd> Sounds great will review In the meantime to cover all possible avenues what about deploying an image on a single Windows Server 2019 VM with Docker Have people tried this any writeups