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I will not be able to expose prefect server to other machines on my network, have I understood that correctly? If start the backend on my computer, only agents on that computer will be able to register?

Hey <@U027CFSLNP6>, this is not right. You can expose Prefect server to outside connections and agents. You just need to make sure that the host compute accepts connections and that you use the `--expose` flag (for 0.15.5 and up)

<https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/prefect-server-101-deploying-to-google-cloud-platform-47354b16afe2|This> walkthrough should help you see the process.

There was changes for security reasons so you need to explicitly do `prefect server start --expose` in Prefect 0.15.5. Maybe just use Prefect 0.15.4 first.

Sounds like a good security measure. Thanks for the help, seems like `--expose` isn't really documented anywhere.