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Hello, I can’t seem to find the local development guide in the docs anymore, how do I start prefect ...
# prefect-server
r
Hello, I can’t seem to find the local development guide in the docs anymore, how do I start prefect server & agent locally for the first time?
k
Hey @Raed Shabbir, 
prefect server start
and 
prefect agent local start
In 0.15.5 if you are conencting from different machines to server, you need the 
--expose
flag
r
Hey Kevin, prefect server starts the UI correctly, but how can I connect to my K8S deployment with external postgresql as in earlier versions?
Also 
prefect agent local start
fails with
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RuntimeError: Error while contacting API at <https://api.prefect.io>
But why would the local agent have to connect to prefect-cloud? (note we are not using prefect-cloud and initially deployed via this guide
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<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwsMecjSYEU>
k
I think you edit this to point to another postgres db. The agent contacts Prefect Cloud by default. To point it to server, you need to do 
prefect backend server
r
I see, so the correct order of operations for purely local development would be 1. prefect backend server 2. prefect server start 3. prefect local agent start ?
k
Yep
r
Great and what would be the recommend way to switch from local agent to our K8s deployed server?
Would it be just adding the following lines into the flow file?
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# comment out 
# flow.executor = LocalExecutor()
#! For using kube 
flow.executor = DaskExecutor()

# flow.run_config = KubernetesRun(
#     image=<path to docker image>
#     env={
#         "PREFECT__CONTEXT__SECRETS__BITBUCKET_CLOUD_USERNAME": os.environ[
#             "BITBUCKET_CLOUD_USERNAME"
#         ],
#         "PREFECT__CONTEXT__SECRETS__BITBUCKET_CLOUD_APP_PASSWORD": os.environ[
#             "BITBUCKET_ACCESS_TOKEN"
#         ],
#         "PREFECT__LOGGING__LEVEL": "DEBUG",
#     },
#     image_pull_policy="Always",
# )
k
The agent will connect to the Server after doing 
prefect backend server
. Flows that are registered will also be registered on the server
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