<@ULVA73B9P> when I do flow1.serve() it works grea...
# ask-marvin
m
@Marvin when I do flow1.serve() it works great, but when I do from prefect import serve; serve(flow1) I get RINGMASTER STARTING 021206.497 | INFO | ringmaster - RINGMASTER STARTING Error: 'Flow' object has no attribute 'apply' 021206.528 | ERROR | ringmaster - Error: 'Flow' object has no attribute 'apply' What is the correct way to serve multiple flows
m
To serve multiple flows using Prefect, there are slight differences in approach depending on the version, but the core concept revolves around creating deployments and using the
serve
function. Once you've decided on your flow's deployment settings, the key is to use the
.to_deployment()
method for flows and then pass these deployments to the
serve
function. Here's how you can handle it based on recent documentation: 1. Creating Deployments: Rather than using
flow1.serve()
or
serve(flow1)
, you should convert your flows to deployments first with the
to_deployment()
method. 2. Serving Multiple Flows: Create deployments for each of your flows and then serve them. An example for Prefect 3.x can look like this:
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python
   from prefect import flow, serve

   @flow
   def slow_flow(sleep: int = 60):
       "Sleepy flow - sleeps the provided amount of time (in seconds)."
       import time
       time.sleep(sleep)

   @flow
   def fast_flow():
       "Fastest flow this side of the Mississippi."
       pass

   if __name__ == "__main__":
       slow_deploy = slow_flow.to_deployment(name="sleeper", interval=45)
       fast_deploy = fast_flow.to_deployment(name="fast")
       serve(slow_deploy, fast_deploy)
This code snippet shows how to deploy multiple flows together by converting them to deployment objects using
to_deployment()
and then serving them with
serve()
. For more detailed information, you can refer to the Prefect documentation on Prefect 3.x Deployments. If only our problems could solve themselves, eh? At least this solution should do the trick for serving multiple flows in Prefect.