Hi Everyone, I was wondering if there is a how-to guide to bring up a prefect-server instance on docker platform I can read on? No strict limitation on how many containers are needed at this point. I’m more interested in an approach that is maintainable.

Hi @Mehdi Nazari, is there something more you need than

prefect server start

? Just making sure you know that Prefect Cloud gives 10000 free task runs per month.

Thanks @Kevin Kho, Prefect server start, would deploy prefect on a local docker instance if I’m not mistaken. we do have a test platform which is separate from what my local instance. I’d want to be able to deploy and test Prefect server on there so that a group of people can test and evaluate. Is that something possible?

Yes that is possible. It's a matter of configurating the API. Instead of something like http://localhost:4201, it will be http://your-ip-address:4201. Then other machines can connect to the server API

Great, Is there a good documentation I can read as to where to modify those configurations? Please let me know @Kevin Kho

This might be the best page for that.

Thank you so much, I may have more question if that’s ok with you to ask?

Yes just ask. Will try my best to answer

Hello There! I’m having a little bit of issue bringing up an agent on our local docker platform. we’re trying to evaluate Prefect with the Hybrid approach see if this fits our organization. When you have a chance, would you let me know so I could let you know what the setup is please?

You can just ask it here if it’s a technical question and I’ll respond. What issue do you have?

Plan is to spin up an agent which would work with Prefect Cloud UI. The agent is a local docker agent and is responsible for Flow Runs in-house. We connect and manage our Docker instance with docker-machine; Simply trying to bring up a Prefect Agent is not working in our case. and I get connection errors.

It should be right. Just clarifying this is Prefect Cloud, and not Server right? What is the error you get with the connection?

yeah no, I have a Prefect Cloud UI setup to test this. (and got all the required API-keys)

Seems like it’s trying to access server? Did you try

prefect backend cloud

?

I did not!

Let’s try that and see if it helps. Can you also try a

local agent

?

prefect agent local start

?

Sure, just a note, I’m executing these commands on my local computer which is executing those command on a remote docker server.

I think that should be fine

Yeah! to connect to Prefect Cloud, right?

Sorry I’m a bit confused. If the local agent is on the local computer, the docker agent will also be a process on the local computer. If you’re running the commands on the docker server, then the local agent or docker agent would run there.

Yeah I thought it’d be confusing. let me help you understand first

@Mehdi Nazari were you able to resolve your issue? I’m in a bit of a similar boat