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Hi! Does anybody know what’s the best way to initiate/run prefect job from gitlab ci/cd pipeline?

```prefect-run:
  # Use the official prefect image.
  image: prefecthq/prefect:latest
  before_script:
    - prefect auth login --key "$PREFECT_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN"

  script:    
    - prefect run --name "$NAME_OF_FLOW"```
I'm not great at Gitlab ci/cd, but something like this should work quite well.

The API key can also just be provided as an environment variable secret without the `login` call

You'll probably want to include `--watch` so that CI doesn't finish until the flow does and the exit code will reflect the status of the run then. Without `--watch`, it just creates a flow run and exits.