hi there! I'm working on deploying prefect on a se...
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Chris Goddard
07/21/2020, 5:40 PMhi there! I'm working on deploying prefect on a server. in the short term I'm just wanting to run a flow as a script rather than run prefect server. that works fine locally but for some reason on the server I keep getting errors because it's expecting an API key to prefect cloud. is there a configuration setting I'm missing?
Chris Goddard
07/21/2020, 5:46 PMI'm using the "slack_notifier" state handler which references prefect.Client() to get a flow ID's url. this is what's causing the error - get_cloud_url method fails because it's trying to connect to Prefect Cloud
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Zachary Hughes
07/21/2020, 5:50 PMHi @Chris Goddard, have you run
prefect backend serverc
Chris Goddard
07/21/2020, 5:51 PMno! I'll try. I think because I've run prefect server locally my local configuration is different
Chris Goddard
07/21/2020, 5:51 PMis there a way to configure that without running that command? I'm running the script and prefect within a docker container
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Zachary Hughes
07/21/2020, 5:56 PMbackendconfig.tomlc
Chris Goddard
07/21/2020, 5:56 PMperfect
Chris Goddard
07/21/2020, 5:57 PMyup that worked!
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Zachary Hughes
07/21/2020, 5:58 PMGlad to hear it!
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Chris Goddard
07/21/2020, 5:59 PMcould that be set with an environment variable? i.e.
PREFECT__CONFIG__BACKENDChris Goddard
07/21/2020, 6:00 PMwould it be
PREFECT__CONFIG__BACKEND="server"z
Zachary Hughes
07/21/2020, 6:03 PMThat would do the trick as well! Env vars set like that can override the values defined in
config.tomlPREFECT__BACKEND