Does anyone have advice for docker agents to stay logged in

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Does anyone have advice for docker agents to stay logged in on the Azure ACR I have the docker agents running on my vm it s logged in with an identity but the `az acr login name acrname` logs out after a couple hours and requires me to do it again I also run the command within the docker image as well for the docker agent It s all working but after a while I get logged out from the ACR and my flow starts to crash gt Error message gt 500 Server Error for Internal Server Error Head unauthorized authentication required

Luuk · Answer

below the docker compose file ```version 3 7 services agent build context dockerfile Dockerfile entrypoint bin sh c command | az acr login name acrname prefect agent docker start env PREFECT CLOUD USE LOCAL SECRETS=false volumes $ HOME azure root azure $ HOME prefect root prefect var run docker sock var run docker sock```

Anna Geller · Answer

You talk to the right person joy I spent so many hours on this and Azure really doesn t make it easy This Discourse page walks you through how you can set up long lived credentials for your Docker agent on Azure <https discourse prefect io t how to spin up a docker agent on azure vm a full walkthrough 407 authenticate with azure 6>

Anna Geller · Answer

TL DR instead of using `az acr login` you need to use ```docker login <http yourregistry azurecr io|yourregistry azurecr io> u $USER NAME p $PASSWORD```

Luuk · Answer

I m so glad to have you around here always such a great help