Hey all, we’re new to Prefect (though I did maintain an Airflow cluster for several years, in a previous job), and have some questions about what idioms to adopt. In particular, it appears (https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/CL09KU1K7/p1602603712337700?thread_ts=1602244141.206600, https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/3368) that

RunConfig

is slowly taking the place of

Environment

as the primary abstraction for specifying execution environments, though it’s still marked experimental. Does anyone, especially longtime users and/or maintainers, have any general advice on which to use if just getting started? I’d like to be using Prefect for “production” work within a few weeks, so a somewhat stable API would be grand. OTOH, we don’t want to adopt conventions whose obsolescence is already planned. Also, we’re an AWS shop. Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the question @Patrick - I'm going to double check with the core team on what they recommend.

Thanks, appreciate that!

Hi @Patrick - A bit more information that will hopefully help you make your decision: We'll support Environments for quite a long time as we'll want to give users time to migrate to RunConfig.  So environments are safe, with the caveat that we won’t be introducing any new exciting features to the environments interface. On the other hand, RunConfigs work right now and will be updated in the future. We expect to update the documentation around them later this week.