hey guys. trying to set the local configuration path, but is not being found. I’m doing as docs `export PREFECT__USER_CONFIG_PATH="path/to/config.toml"`I tried using both an absolute and a relative path and nothing. also tried settings the config (Slack webhook url) directly into the code, like this discussion and nothing, still getting the same

ValueError

where it can’t find Slack webhook URL

Hey @wiretrack, wondering if maybe your

"PREFECT__CLOUD__USE_LOCAL_SECRETS" = "false"

so it doesn’t pull the local secret? I guess you can test the config by logging

prefect.context.config

and seeing if other things in the file show up?

it seems that

use_local_secrets

is false indeed

If it’s false, it will always look for Secrets in the Cloud only and won’t resolve the ones from that

.toml

can I set it inside the code?

prefect.context.secrets["USE_LOCAL_SECRETS"] = True

?

No because the context is set the moment you import Prefect and is not really mutable like that. You need to set the env var with

os

before you

import prefect

to do it in code

Ok, thought it was mutable, got it. I tried

exporting

bot nothing. maybe I’ll have to restart the server

It would be like this

import os
os.environ["PREFECT__CLOUD__USE_LOCAL_SECRETS"] = False
import prefect

bool

doesnt work

raise TypeError("str expected, not %s" % type(value).__name__)

TypeError: str expected, not bool

Oh but when you register, it’s not part of the registration. It would be the settings on the agent.

so I have to restart the agent ?

Yes you would have to and edit the config.toml for the agent I believe.

so the Agent is the one responsible for the configuration management and stuff, right? It has nothing to do with the server and registration

For the flow run yes. Like if you wanted to set the logging to debug, it would be on the agent. (or env variable through the Flow Run Configuration)

Got it, so I couldn’t make the

os

approach work, even before importing prefect. But I could set the user config before starting the agent and it seems to get the correct configuration, i’ll do a few more tests

Of course 👍