Question: We are looking for a pipeline orchestrator and I have been testing prefect. I had a very good experience following the deployment docs, but one thing has me a bit confused; I was testing out the flow versioning feature by sending a TERM signal to the agent while it was running a flow, and it seems this leaves the flow in running state indefinitely (or pending, depending on when I interrupt the agent). I am following https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/work-queues/ for the agent setup, and what I see seems similar to the issue described here https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/2834, so I went looking for docker or kubernetes agents. However, I'm not finding anything for prefect v2; Am I doing something horribly wrong? What is the best practice with regards to handling hanging flows due to issues on the agent side?

Hello Jonas, here is a good article for deploying prefect agents on kubernetes

Thanks! I followed a link in that article and found a hint regarding docker/kubernetes here: https://discourse.prefect.io/t/prefect-1-0-prefect-2-0-kubernetes-run-config-to-kubernetesjob-infrastructure-block/1229. Namely

prefect deployment build

takes a cli arg

--infra

which can be set to docker. In this case, I think it is safe for me to assume that issue #2834 that I linked above is an exact match for the behaviour I am seeing, right?

Hi Jonas, sorry for the delayed response. Yes, I do believe that the issue you linked is a match to the behavior that you are seeing. If you're inclined to do so, I'd recommend opening a new issue in GitHub or commenting on the original post with a description of what you're encountering.

got it, thanks for getting back!