Hey everyone, do you know any resources for best practises / guides regarding production deployment of agents? I'm looking at https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/agents/overview.html#agent-types and am wondering whether a single vm using a docker agent would be fine. I am looking for something with very little overhead as our team is very small (3 people, so I feel kubernetes agent is not really an option). Thanks!

If you are on AWS, the ECSAgent had pretty minimal overhead. There is a bit to manage and configure but overall it feels like a nice balance.

Thanks, that does look interesting. Unfortunately we're on Azure and can't switch :/

Yeah a single VM should be fine. For Local and Docker agent though, the Flows will run on it so it depends on how much resources your flows need.

To expand on that question: Our proposed architecture would be prefect cloud + a single azure vm as an agent. Most of our prefect tasks would be just calls to trigger azure ML / azure Functions to do the heavy lifting and then stitch together the results. Does that sound reasonable or are there any obvious issues?

That sounds reasonable. That’s how ECS is. In that case you only need a lightweight agent.

Thank you so much ❤️