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Hi, have a question via checking deploy a flow using `flow.deploy` and Docker : <https://docs.prefect.io/3.0/deploy/infrastructure-concepts/deploy-via-python#deploy-a-flow-with-flow-deploy>

in terms of local deployment, If I already spin up a docker compose service with prefect agent/server, should I just use `flow.serve()` 
, is the flow.deploy() more like we run prefect in a non-docker env like our local, and try to spin up a flow in a docker container?

hi <@U07PV5E9GM7>

yep the big difference between .serve and .deploy is:
• .serve is good for static infrastructure (a long lived container in a docker compose setup)
• .deploy is good for when you want to create a decoupled deployment definition that you can dynamically create infra for (for example you have docker worker running on a VM and so every flow run spins up a new container)