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Hi!  I work at a large corp and will not be able to use Prefect Cloud. Is there a good tutorial for installing prefect core server on a host? Preferably will run on a long running kubernetes container, but EC2 also OK.

Hi <@U01KX5W7R0Q> - check out <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/server/pull/171|the Prefect helm chart> for some information on deploying all the pieces of Prefect Server to K8s. For information on deploying to a single machine (like EC2), check out <https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/prefect-server-101-deploying-to-google-cloud-platform-47354b16afe2|this blog post>, which describes the process for GCP but is directly transferrable.

Do note that because we don’t store your data/code we typical play well with large corps! Let us know if you run into issues with the helm chart. Also, the PR Nicholas linked is. WIP IAC for infrastructure *and* the helm chart. The helm chart can be used standalone if there’s an existing cluster and the instructions for that are at <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/server/tree/master/helm/prefect-server>

Thanks michael i'm not against paying for the cloud service but I checked and couldn't find a prior infosec review for prefect.

<@U01KX5W7R0Q> we routinely fill out infosec reviews when working with our large clients - if you want to have a more formal conversation about that let us know and we can make it happen! :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi I've gone through the GCP deployment on a host.  Is there guidance for authentication? For example I put redshift in a VPC, but still have to authenticate with credentials.  I couldn't find authentication instructions to the UI.

Hmm I’m not sure what you mean. We don’t support authentication out of the box with Prefect Server (it’s very infra specific) but I know users make it work.

Got it -- i'm a data guy not developer, sorry for the dumb questions.  So anyone who can access the server UI is able to make changes or run flows, etc.  I should be looking for standard methods to authenticate to a server ip hosted website, I guess.

I believe people use <https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/examples/auth/basic/> but I can’t really say more than that. Cloud is going to be more secure than any authentication that can be tacked onto Server.