Hi, is there a way from Prefect client to know when a deployment has been updated? I mean when was last time prefect deployment has been execute on a specific deployment. If it is not possible through Prefect client, is this info stored in Orion backend database?

hi @Giacomo Chiarella - yes all prefect objects have

created

and

updated

fields like this

In [1]: from prefect import get_client

In [2]: async with get_client() as client:
   ...:     deployment = await client.read_deployment("<some UUID>")
   ...:

In [3]: deployment
Out[3]: DeploymentResponse(...)

In [4]: deployment.updated
Out[4]: DateTime(2024, 3, 7, 2, 5, 49, 730749, tzinfo=Timezone('UTC'))

I’ve noticed actually the updated field is updated also in other situations not only when a deployment is created/updated. I was looking for something to tell me when Flow.deploy has been invoked last time

you could probably just create a prefect variable and update that after you call flow.deploy?

that is a solution. I was looking for something cleaner because I will need to create a variable for each deployment

if you're looking for something more specific to your needs than what currently exists as

updated

then a variable seems simplest to me

yes, I think so

or perhaps a single variable like

dict[str, datetime]

in that case I should be careful about concurrency, better a variable per deployment