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Hello, im trying to deploy a prefect local hosted to be able to track cron job like tasks. I want both the server and the workers to run in a kubernetes enviroment. I dont know if i am mistunderstanding how to deploy this but it looks like it needs to have a constant worker pooling for the jobs instead of a cronjob like behaviour. If possible some instructions on how to make it work would be nice. Thanks.

Hi Diogo! If you haven't seen it yet, the <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect-helm/tree/main|prefect-helm> chart will help you install and configure Prefect on Kubernetes.

Whether or not you'd need to use a worker depends on the type of infra you'd like to use. If you'd like to leverage dynamic infrastructure (<https://docs.prefect.io/3.0/deploy/infrastructure-examples/kubernetes|like kubernetes>), you'll need to stand up a worker. If you'd prefer to run scheduled work in a long-lived infra, .<https://docs.prefect.io/3.0/deploy/static-infrastructure-examples/docker#serve-flows-in-a-long-lived-docker-container|serve()> is the way to go.