how are flow configurations supposed to be used? https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/agents/docker.html#flow-configuration these labels and env variables are presumably specific to each agent that i start up, so i can control, say, staging and prod but this looks like something global that's checked in to the codebase that goes with the flow code definition

Hi Jonathan! The code-configured settings are the default, but both Server and Cloud allow for things like labels and Run configs to be overwritten on a per-run / per-flow basis as well

ah, excellent, so what's in code are the defaults, and then the agent should override them with these

-l

and

-e

params https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/cli/agent.html#docker-start

To be clear, the

-l

label on agents are for setting the labels on the agent which affects what runs the agent can pick up. If you want to change the settings of your run, then yea whatever you put in the Run panel on the UI or set via the GraphQL API will take precedence

ah, right, so i might have

labels=["staging", "prodctuion"]

in the code run config, and maybe some default values for vars and then the agent would have the label

staging

or

production

, then use the

-e

param to override some vars, and then also add in the environment-specific passwords and then i might do a one-off run to modify one of the env vars to see how it changes things does that all sound kind of reasonable?

yup 100%!

perfect, thanks, just takes a bit to string together the different puzzle pieces across the documentation