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when trying to use prefect locally via the docker image `docker run -it prefecthq/prefect:latest` , when i then run `prefect server start` I get a *FileNotFoundError* looking for a docker-compose file. I am running the command in the docker container

Hi <@U014F3GEX2M> - I can't test this atm but my initial guess would be this is a docker-in-docker issue; can you confirm by execing into that container that the docker compose file exists in the `~/.prefect` directory?

actually, i dont see anytihng in that folder

i can `cd ~/.prefect` but `ls -a` returns nothing

Hi <@U014F3GEX2M> - sorry for the slow response here, I've tested this and can confirm what you're seeing; the issue arises because the base Prefect image isn't intended to run Prefect Server, it's intended to package core components for running flows. As such, it doesn't have docker installed; to make this work, you'll need to create your own image that has docker, and install prefect in that.

Note: this isn't really recommended because docker-in-docker isn't really supported; running `prefect server start` already spins up a series of containers that represent the prefect server stack

ive gone the route of having a dev-agent set up on our ECS that we can connect to through labels