Hi there. I was wondering about the significance of agents in Orion. In Prefect 1 we use agents for different flow-run configurations, in particular resource availability. We created five agents:

agent-default

,

agent-small

,

agent-medium

,

agent-large

and

agent-huge

, each with different amounts of available RAM and CPU. Now that we with Orion can set

KubernetesJob

-infrastructure blocks in the

Deployment

-object, having different agents or queues for the different resource tiers no longer seems necessary. Does anyone know of examples where agents/queues have been used explicitly? I noticed for examples the documentation mention agent queue priorities

Hi Thomas, here is an article that may help answer some of your questions. A key change that distinguishes agents in 1.0 from work-queues/agents in 2.0: • In Prefect 1.0, agents are required to see the flow run history in the UI. • In Prefect 2.0, agents and work queues are only required if you want to trigger flows via UI or API.

Cool! Thank you for clearing that up 🙂