One of the new UI's most innovative features is that it can instantly be pointed at any Prefect API, whether Cloud or Server, by changing a setting in the UI itself. This means that Prefect Cloud users can self-host the UI
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Anna Geller
01/06/2022, 12:53 PM
I think this part of Laura’s tutorial shows how to set this up
https://youtu.be/89W-jMVH410?t=2595▾
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Kevin Kho
01/06/2022, 2:43 PM
This feature was deprecated. There used to be a toggle but nobody used it so you can’t use your UI to point to Cloud
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nicholas
01/06/2022, 6:04 PM
For some more context @Suresh R - the feature existed but wasn’t used much if at all and ended up being more confusing to most users than helpful, which is why we decided to remove it. However, it is still possible to host your own UI and point to Cloud but you would need to rebuild the UI and set the environment variable
VUE_APP_BACKEND
to
CLOUD
instead of
SERVER
(you’ll see this variable in the
.env
file here). Unless you have a significant motivation for doing so, it’s easier to use the hosted UI at cloud.prefect.io, since this gives you automatic updates and removes the burden of the rebuild and deployment.
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