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Hello, I am running through the Docker Prefect example (<https://docs.prefect.io/guide/examples/imperative_docker.html>) and it says that it is using the Imperative API to build out the example. Is there a reason why the Functional API couldn't be used for this purpose?

nope, no reason at all; we just used the imperative API for a more diverse set of examples

Something that would be helpful would be to see a similar task written with both APIs. Being new to Prefect, it would help me understand the differences.

Yea that makes sense!  I’ve opened an issue to rewrite the Docker example using the functional API (as a new example, so you can compare): <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/1217>

Hi <@UL1QU7JE5> -&gt; our functional API docker example is now live! <https://docs.prefect.io/guide/examples/functional_docker.html>