Need an advice on how to use context in cloud Hey there Glad

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Need an advice on how to use context in cloud Hey there Glad to be here We use Prefect via Cloud There some parameters in our flows I want to store parameters values in the prefect context Code from the docs works fine locally ``` task log stdout=True def print context print print context from task prefect context get db env DB ENV = Parameter database to connect to default= local prefect context db env = DB ENV doesn t work in cloud with Flow testing context as flow print context upstream tasks = DB ENV flow run ``` then I register the flow in a docker storage and push it to the cloud And it doesn t work when I run the flow via cloud ui it shows None instead of parameter

Sasha Mikhailov · Answer

In general is it possible or good practice to pack several parameters to a context and then call it inside tasks In case of using in Cloud locally it works fine

Spencer · Answer

Accessing the context outside of a task won t persist to a non local flow since the context isn t deployed with the pickled flow I ve used Secrets for this to store credentials for databases and other services <https docs prefect io orchestration concepts secrets html>

Zanie · Answer

If I m not mistaken all of the parameters in your flows should be able in the context at `prefect context parameters`

Zanie · Answer

For example ```import prefect from prefect import task Flow Parameter task log stdout=True def display print prefect context get parameters with Flow with parameters as flow foo = Parameter foo default=1 bar = Parameter bar default=2 flow add task foo flow add task bar display flow run ```

Sasha Mikhailov · Answer

< Zanie> wow Michael thanks a lot That s the thing I saw that method in docs but I tried to apply it in wrong way gt lt Need to pay more attention

Zanie · Answer

Glad it worked slightly smiling face