Hi all, when deploying flows via dockerfile, prefect seems to create a large number of images and containers locally. Is there documentation on how to best configure the docker deployment to avoid that behavior?

You can let the Prefect worker know that it should remove the container after your flow finishes. You can also configure it to not pull the images if they are already present according to the docker daemon running on the target machine. This is how you would do that using a

prefect.yaml

file.

deployments:
  - name: "hello-world"
    version: "0.0.0"
    description: "Hey there"
    entrypoint: "entrypoint"
    work_pool:
      name: "docker-work-pool"
      work_queue_name: "default"
      job_variables:
        image: "<image-url>"
        image_pull_policy: "IfNotPresent"
        auto_remove: true

Thanks for the quick response! but aren't those configs for the worker the docker flow is run in?