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Hi, I'm working on upgrading our prefect cloud from 2.0 to 3.0, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to test it w/o shutting prefect down for a maintenance window. My understanding is that to update prefect cloud, you simply run `pip install -U prefect`. I need to test locally and work on the code changes/refactoring that are necessary, for example, we are running an old version of pydantic, which necessitates refactoring. Ref: *<https://docs.prefect.io/3.0/resources/upgrade-to-prefect-3|Upgrade to Prefect 3.0>*

hi <@U05SRQW397F>!

generally, incrementally migrating deployments individually (or groups of similar ones) to a 3.x version is a pattern I'd recommend

Prefect Cloud is compatible with both 2.x and 3.x versions of the SDK, so its just a matter of updating the SDK according to any of the changes between 2 and 3 (which are listed in that doc you linked)

does that help?