sorry to keep posting here but im still having problems getting this to run on a VM. i have tried both inside a venv and outside. Googling doesnt seem to help. Prefect installs with no errors but running

prefect server start

keeps giving me this error. Is there somewere i can just get a copy of the docker-compose file? I’ve tried this on two VMs now

ERROR: 
        Can't find a suitable configuration file in this directory or any
        parent. Are you in the right directory?

        Supported filenames: docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.yaml

i had a look in the directory mentioned in the traceback for the docker-compose.yml and it is there, so I’m not sure why it isn’t being recognised

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "******/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/prefect/cli/server.py", line 608, in start
    subprocess.check_call(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 364, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['docker-compose', 'pull']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

If you have errors with the Docker daemon, are you able to do

docker run hello-world

to make sure it works? There can be permission things related to that. If this succeeds, the

prefect server start

should work. Maybe you also need to install

docker-compose

in additional to Docker? The

docker-compose.yml

is here

it was an issu with permissions. the way i got around it in the end (hopefully this might help others) was to add the user to the docker group