Hey all, I'm looking at running prefect cloud (managed) and realize in order for my task to access my gcp cloud sql db I would need to whitelist IPs. Does anyone know what are the IPs for prefect cloud?

Hey @Johnny, I don’t think it’s the IP of Prefect Cloud you need to whitelist. Your agent is in communication with Prefect Cloud, and the agent kicks off a job that does that work. It’s the IP of the machine doing the work that needs to be whitelisted. Does that make sense?

Are agents not managed by prefect cloud? Or do you have to host and run your own agent? Regardless isn't the task itself hosted by prefect. And as a result the task will need to connect to the db.

Agents are lightweight process that live on you infrastructure. They poll Prefect Cloud for work to do every 10 seconds. They get the metadata around the job such as where the Flow is stored and how to run it. It then spins up a job to run it. For example, the LocalAgent can be on your computer, and when it picks up a job, it will start a new process on the same machine to run the Flow. So it’s the IP of the LocalAgent machine that needs to be whitelisted since it’s the one doing the work. Prefect doesn’t see your code or data by default

^ got it that makes sense... thanks

Of course. Let me know if you have any other questions.