Hi, I would like some help understanding the utility of the Docker image (https://hub.docker.com/r/prefecthq/prefect) I thought I could use this and run it to get a prefect environment running locally.. but trying to start the prefect server I get

No such file or directory: 'docker-compose': 'docker-compose'

Should docker-compose not be installed inside the image and this be a read-to go dev environment?

Hi @charmatski - Prefect Server has many interlocking parts which would be tedious to spin up separately - the image you linked to is normally spun up using

docker-compose

in the host environment. If you have docker compose installed in your host environment, you can run

prefect server start

and Prefect will take care of running the

docker-compose.yml

and injecting the appropriate env variables.

Ah, so it's intended I write my own docker-compose

Not at all! Prefect comes with a

docker-compose

file already configured. I'd encourage you to install docker compose and run

prefect server start

to let Prefect take care of that.

so on the host i'd have to install • prefect using pip3 • docker • docker-compose ?

Yup, that should do it

Alright, thanks for your help

did it work after the steps?