hi there, having a little trouble logging into prefect cloud with an API key in a non-interactive fashion. What i did was this

prefect cloud login --workspace my-account/my-workspace --key ....
Creating a profile for this Prefect Cloud login. Please specify a profile name: default
Profile 'default' already exists.

I haven’t expected to be prompted about anything, it’s impossible for me to respond to the prompt. Is there another way to provide the key? An ENV var? Is there a way to “purge” the prefect config to be able to login without the prompt complaining

hi Jan, the PREFECT_API_KEY is likely what you are looking for

If you are using a docker image, I did this:

# set prefect cloud defaults
RUN . $VENV_PATH/bin/activate
RUN /bin/sh -c "prefect config set PREFECT_API_URL=$(cat ./api_url.txt)"
RUN /bin/sh -c "prefect config set PREFECT_API_KEY=$(cat ./api_key.txt)"

ah, fantastic – thank you! i don’t want to touch the URL is it possible too keep the default?

the URL is a separate variable

Gotcha, thank you