Morning all! I’m new to Prefect, looking to deploy the server, or whole stack, in a container onto FarGate - has anyone tried this? Can’t find much on it..

Hi Darragh! Welcome to Prefect! I've not had much experience with Fargate but let me see if others on the team have tried this. Maybe others here can chip in too.

@Darragh I haven’t done it either but since the server stack is all Dockerized it should be possible as long as each service is in its own Task all of the Fargate Tasks are configured to communicate with one another

Thanks guys - I had a shot at a basic “pip install prefect” inside a Docker container and hit the always fun docker-in-docker problems, so I thought I’d check in and see if there’s a known good method 🙂

Yeah you’re going to want to run every service in its own container 🙂 check out the docker compose file used to run the server from the

server start

CLI command https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/master/src/prefect/cli/docker-compose.yml And the images can be found on DockerHub https://hub.docker.com/u/prefecthq

Bugger, I was really hoping I could do them all in 1, save having to compose multiple containers!

That’s a standard python image with Prefect and some dependencies installed. Helpful in spinning up a container for development and it’s also used as the default base image (can be overridden with any other) when registering flows with Docker storage

Fair enough, thanks for the info! I’ll do them indepedently and then come back once I hit my next problem 😄 Thanks Josh!