I think Prefect currently lacks an organized way to quiesce agents in preparation for an upgrade. i.e. I want a way to tell agents “finish what you’re doing but don’t accept any new work” so I can shut them down and replace them in an organized manner without interrupting any flows. Should I file an issue about this, or is there an accepted workflow for accomplishing this?

Hey @Nicholas Chammas, if you are using anything other can a local agent, the work will continue and new flows will just be queued until there is another agent. If you have labels, maybe you can remove them too?

So if I tear down an agent while it’s running flows and later spin up a replacement, the replacement will automatically continue those interrupted flows?

No the flows spun up by Docker, Kubernetes and ECS agent will continue to run. The replacement will pick up the new flows that were queued.