@Marvin how do i make my automations apart of prefect.yaml

To integrate automations into your

prefect.yaml

file, you'll essentially be configuring deployment settings within this YAML file to manage your Prefect workflows. The general approach involves setting up your deployment configuration in the

prefect.yaml

file. 1. Create a Deployment: You can create a deployment with a

prefect.yaml

or a Python file. The configuration in

prefect.yaml

helps in managing how your workflows should be executed and automated. This includes specifying metadata about your project, build settings (e.g., Docker images), and push settings. 2. Initialize the Config: To start, you can initialize the deployment configuration by running the command

prefect init

in the directory containing your flow code. Prefect provides "recipes" to structure your

prefect.yaml

file appropriately. 3. Use the CLI for Automation: For further automation, find the deployment ID using the command

prefect deployment ls

. This ID can be embedded in your automated deployments. Prefect also allows programmatic creation of automations using POST calls involving your deployment ID, API key, account ID, and workspace ID. It's important to note that Prefect Cloud offers enhanced automation features, allowing configurations based on specific trigger conditions like flow state changes. You might find these resources handy: - Prefect 2.x automation guide - Prefect 3.x automation triggers I hope this helps you navigate the mystery that is YAML automations. Who knew a text file could be so powerful?

Hi Tom! Would you mind sharing a bit more about what you'd like to do? If you're looking to trigger deployments based on a specific event, the first thing that comes to mind is adding deployment triggers to your

prefect.yaml

Hey @Bianca Hoch! So we run workflows that poll various sources every 10 mins - and have found that due to the high frequency when something goes wrong with our work pool - we can often wake up to 100s of late runs and have to manually delete those late runs to get everything up and running. In our UAT environment i've played around with an automation that deletes late runs from those "polling" deployments if they are in late state for x minutes - it's seemed to have brought more stability. But I am not a fan of "click-ops" and would like to define these automations in code so that they can be apart of our Prefect CD pipeline - similar to the

prefect.yaml

we use for deployments