In Prefect 2.0 CLI, is there a way when running

prefect deployment ls

to get only the deployment’s ids without the fancy drawing of the table? (it makes it difficult to parse the output to use with

xargs

). Then another thing, I’ve noticed that when doing

prefect deployment apply

if the deployment already exists in the cloud, it doesn’t get updated. Is there a way to force the re-deployment of an existing one?

what are you trying to do?

I’m building a CI/CD pipeline in GitHub, at every run of the pipeline I build the docker image for the runtime environment and then I want to apply all of my deployments. I have all the deployment yaml files in a folder

deployements

which allows me to do:

ls deployments/*.yaml | xargs -I % poetry run prefect deployment apply %

but I’ve noticed that if a deployment exists in cloud, if I change the deployment file and do apply again it doesn’t get updated, so for that reason first I need to delete the deployments by doing

poetry run prefect deployment ls | egrep ${GUID_REGEX} -o | xargs -I % poetry run prefect deployment delete --id %

Our deployments aren't updated either when we use "apply". What didn't update in our case was the manifest file and in there the

import_path

when we ran

prefect deployment apply our-deployment.yaml

ahh I see why this might be confusing - in the next releases this info from JSON will move into the YAML manifest so that there will be only one YAML manifest which will make things less confusing and easier to update