Hey Prefect community! I’m using ECS task runs with Github storage for my flows but running into the following error when running the task:

Failed to load and execute Flow's environment: ModuleNotFoundError("No module named 'constants'")

I’m importing constants which will be shared across many flows: the project name, ECS cluster name, Github Token secret name from a

constants.py

file in the same directory. Running the flow locally with

flow.run()

works just fine as expected, but when running it in ECS

constants

is not found. How do I register other module dependencies with Github storage, if possible? Or do I have to add these constant values to each of my flow files? Thank you! Example below:

. (repo root)
|____flows
| |____hello.py
| |____constants.py
| |______init__.py

Are you on Prefect Cloud? This way maybe you could store those constants in KV Store instead. The issue is that Github storage can only store your flow, but not the flow's dependencies and utilities such as your constants.py file. You would need to either build and install it as a package or change the strategy how you generate those constants e.g. moving to KV Store/AWS Parameter store or using Prefect Parameter tasks instead... just some ideas this thread also discussed this problem

Yes we’re on Prefect Cloud - and that makes sense. Will evaluate both those options! Thanks for the thread link and context on the dependencies being separate from the flow 🙂

Hey Wesley, could you move the code in this thread when you get the chance so we can keep the main channel a bit more compact?