I m trying to get `prefect agent start` to connect to Azure

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I m trying to get `prefect agent start` to connect to Azure I am passing in a `AZURE STORAGE CONNECTION STRING` but it complains ```Unexpected error HTTPError 400 Client Error Bad Request for url http lt URL gt 4200 graphql alpha Traceback most recent call last File home lt username gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect client secrets py line 121 in get value = secrets self name KeyError AZ CREDENTIALS ```

Jeremiah · Answer

< Ziyao Wei> are there additional lines in that traceback I think the default value for the credentials may be taking precedence over your `CONNECTION STRING`and I m trying to see where that would happen

Ziyao Wei · Answer

```April 11th 2020 at 1 46 15pm | prefect CloudTaskRunner ERROR Unexpected error HTTPError 400 Client Error Bad Request for url http lt URL gt 4200 graphql alpha Traceback most recent call last File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect client secrets py line 121 in get value = secrets self name KeyError AZ CREDENTIALS During handling of the above exception another exception occurred Traceback most recent call last File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect engine runner py line 48 in inner new state = method self state args kwargs File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect engine task line 925 in get task run state state result store safe value File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect engine result base py line 127 in store safe value value = self result handler write self value File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect engine result handlers azure result line 110 in write self service create blob from text File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect engine result handlers azure result line 75 in service self initialize service File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect engine result handlers azure result line 59 in initialize service azure credentials = Secret self azure credentials secret get File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect client secrets py line 130 in get variables=dict name=self name File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect client client py line 220 in graphql token=token File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect client client py line 180 in post token=token File home lt USER gt local lib python3 7 site packages prefect client client py line 317 in request response raise for status File conda envs rapids lib python3 7 site packages requests models py line 940 in raise for status raise HTTPError http error msg response=self requests exceptions HTTPError 400 Client Error Bad Request for url http lt URL gt 4200 graphql alpha```

Ziyao Wei · Answer

The whole shebang

Jeremiah · Answer

Thanks

Ziyao Wei · Answer

The command is `AZURE STORAGE CONNECTION STRING=XXXXXX prefect agent start`

Ziyao Wei · Answer

Thank you

Jeremiah · Answer

And for your flow you re passing an `Azure` storage is that correct

Ziyao Wei · Answer

I believe so ```storage = Azure container= prefect flows with Flow Hello World from Azure storage=storage as flow simple task test flow register ```

Jeremiah · Answer

Ok thanks for bringing this up First off I can confirm this is a bug related to how we are handling an old way of authenticating and I think we will need to strip out in the next release because it s frustrating and plainly not working correctly To work around it could you please try adding `flow result handler azure credentials secret=None` just prior to registering the flow

Jeremiah · Answer

I opened a bug report <https github com PrefectHQ prefect issues 2316|here> and I anticipate this will be part of a larger push to streamline authentication

Jeremiah · Answer

In addition those code blocks in the docs should be updated shortly

Ziyao Wei · Answer

Thanks for looking into this Will try the workaround now

Ziyao Wei · Answer

Seems to be working thanks Now I need to figure out which version of the Azure Python package to use

Ziyao Wei · Answer

I do need to pass in a handler explicitly otherwise it s not there ```result handler = AzureResultHandler container=container azure credentials secret=None with Flow Hello World from Azure storage=storage result handler=result handler as flow simple task test ```