Good afternoon. I just ran my first flow using prefect server and the localhost:8080. I had a question on scheduling. Is there a way to automate activating the server and local agent or do I just need to leave it running in the background?

They are meant to be run as long running processes because the server has processes that consistently run to schedule your flows. I think server has a

--detach

flag

Kevin, I am running locally as opposed with Docker. Will that work locally?

Server as the detach flag and only runs containerized right?

prefect server start

spins up Docker containers for that.

Ok so I would need to manually start an agent every time?

Well more like you would leave the agent on to pick up work

Thanks Kevin, that was my confusion.

There’s also a supervisor file for the agent https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/agents/local.html#using-with-supervisor