Quick question Can multiple agents share the same auth token

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Quick question Can multiple agents share the same auth token or does each have to have their own For example if I generate the auth token and use that for a K8S agent deployment with a replicaset of 5 can I create that deployment using that one token Doing that only shows one agent in the Prefect Cloud server even though 5 pods exist Thanks

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

Agents are identified in the backend by a tuple of their `name` `type` `prefect version` and `labels` If these are identical across multiple agents then cloud will only see one agent

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

Note that there s no real reason to run multiple of the same agent Prefect scalability isn t limited by the number of running agents so running 5 k8s agents won t make your flows run faster

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

Usually we recommend a `Deployment` of 1 so you ll still get restarts but don t have duplicate agents floating about

David Car · Answer

Right that makes sense I wasn t thinking that through A deployment of one is all that is needed Perfect Thanks