Greetings everyone , I am facing issue while connecting my gitlab storage for flow registration. I did try the steps mentioned in docs but i guess I am missing on something. Can anyone please share in simple steps of resolving the same.

Hi @ash, can you give more details to what errors you get?

yes , i have pushed the flow to my repo with proper path and everything, but when i execute

prefect register -p /test_code_3.py --project MyProject

Oh can you try using an absolute path?

Kevin i have one doubt, my flow on gitlab have access token , repo name and everything, but when i run

prefect register -p /test_code_3.py --project MyProject

what prefect is running here is file on my local system that is pulled from git , right ?

oh sorry didn’t specify. full path for the python file

Ok so let me share what i understood

--> I have my flow on local machine

---> I push it on git 

---> I Register my flow from local

---> The flow is executed from git

Yes exactly so the path of registration is an absolute path to the file

But isn't this against what we were trying to accomplish, we did not want our code to be present on local and keep all the functional code on git , but using local file for registration is not solving this

The local file for registration is just telling Prefect cloud to get it from Git upon execution. For this specific combination it may seem a bit “off”, but this set-up is designed for multiple storage (S3, Docker, Git, Local, etc.) and Git one form of these storage. So that

register

command needs to be able to point to all those locations.

Okay got it, So Kevin the thing is i am trying to make a system where all my scripts are present on git and prefect is using that code, in such a case i would need to keep all my scripts on local machine as well atleast once for registering , what do you suggest , is that a good practice or i shall try some other approach

I think it’s not best practice because it seems so easy to fall out of sync, but it might work. Not 100% sure though

so any suggestion if you could please 😅

I mean best practice is really that process you outlined 😆 . Think about this, having something in Git does not give you metadata (what version what the Flow registered under?). Prefect checks the metadata and makes sure everything is good upon loading.

ok perfect , got it , let me test this process then 😋

Of course!

Hey Kevin , i tested giving the full path of file and it worked, the flow got registered from github but when the flow was executed using quick run on UI , the flow is not running . I am using local agent and it up and running

What are the labels of your agent and flow?

sorry but did not understand your question, what are labels?

Check this . Labels are given to agents and to flows. Agents can only pick up flows with the same labels

ohh wow, I checked the agent had a label but the flow did not have a label, and after adding the same label its working, thats great 🙌

Glad you got it working! 🙂