does anyone know of a resource that will get me started with installing prefect server and an agent on an ubuntu VM? All i seem to be able to find is docs on GCP and AWS. I want it to run as a service too, restarting automatically if it crashes out

Hey @Arran, on the VM, it would be just spinning up server with

prefect server start

and this will use

docker-compose

and spin up the relevant services.

server

as a service is a bit harder, what do you have in mind? Are you not on cloud?

that looks close to what im after. We have our own servers and have set up a VM with ubuntu live server to dedicate to prefect and some node scripts

You just need to open the ports of the VM (8080 is the UI and 4200 is the API) and then you can access the UI at <VM-IP>:8080

great

You would need to set that up. Make sure to

--use-volume

to persist the state so that your Flows are available when you start back up as seen here

awesome

Or maybe you have an external postgres db you are using like the next section there

i think i was just thrown off by the seemingly lacking documentation a docker deploy. But that seems like it’s because I’m used to more complicated setups. So thats a credit to prefect actually!