* Figured out the issue, see bottom of text * Hey all, New to Prefect, and am running into the following error when trying to deploy to Azure using the CLI:

RuntimeError: A 'sync_compatible' method was called from a context that was previously async but is now sync. The sync call must be changed to run in a worker thread to support sending the coroutine for 'load' to the main thread.

I've dug into this error, and here are my findings: • This error only seems to occur when I'm attempting to deploy to Azure while importing functions from another directory (either sibling or child directories). • I'm able to successfully deploy the code to Blob Storage when I comment out the directory imports (and in association the related functions/tasks). • I'm able to successfully spin up an agent and have the flows run through the local file system. This is isolated only when trying to deploy to Azure. • The error stems from sync_compatible. • Not many examples of this occurring in the past, but there is one in this slack channel and this posting here. Both are from the last ~3 weeks. Any ideas? Thanks! EDIT: Found a solution. Seems like this issue stemmed from my inexperience with the tool. I had broken up the file structure into a separate folder for Flows, Tasks and Functions. Issue was that I had the .py files for the functions written in a way where not all of the code was contained within a function. ie:

engine = create_engine(snowflake...)

def test():

return

Did NOT work, whereas

def test():

engine = create_engine(snowflake...)

return

Did work. I'll leave this here in case anyone else runs into a similar issue 🙂