Hy every one, I am using Docker storage for my flow and get this error

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'utils'

when running

python file.py

It seems like that my local package utils is not found during docker build. Here is the structure of my folder. 

src
	utils/
	file.py
	__init__.py

I am using a custom docker image where I already copied every thing in src in the image. Please help me on this. Any help is appreciated 🙏Many thanks already

Looks similar to https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C014Z8DPDSR/p1627481668187900 , try adding a line to your Dockerfile which executes

pip install -e .

to install your package locally

hey @Greg Roche thx for the link. I am running the agent in a different machine. So I guess I have have to package this with Docker? what exactly does it mean?

The point is that the agent needs to be able to successfully run the

import utils.whatever

python commands which are at the top of your flow logic. If you're just running your agent on the other machine by starting a command line and running

prefect agent local start

or something, then installing your package locally with the editable flag before starting the agent should be enough (or better, create and activate a venv, install all dependencies, then

pip install -e .

, then start your agent from the venv). It's a bit cleaner if you run your agent from within a Docker container because then you can put all this setup in the Dockerfile and starting the agent is just as simple as running the container.

okay, thanks @Greg Roche, in my case I have a Kubernetes Agent so it will be a bit different but I think I got what you mean. Will come back after some works

Greg is right, I think the Python scripts need to be installed as module because the location where the script is running from might be different than you expect and the

pip install -e .

makes the library available to your agent whatever directory you’re in.

@Greg Roche and @Kevin Kho I’ve added a setup.py with the necessary metadata and then run the

pip install -e .

in my custom Dockerfile and it worked fine. Thanks for the help guys 🙏