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!

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. https://orion-docs.prefect.io/concepts/storage/ https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/deployments/ https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/infrastructure/

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

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 https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect-recipes/tree/main/azure/prefect-2/prefect-agent-on-aks https://discourse.prefect.io/t/prefect-1-0-prefect-2-0-kubernetes-run-config-to-kubernetesjob-infrastructure-block/1229

@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?