I used and promoted the use of Prefect in my previous company for over 3 years where we self hosted prefect-server in an AWS kubernetes namespace. Now I am at a new company and am trying to get IT to get prefect-server self hosted and deployed here. We have gcp and slightly different ways of handling certs and other bits. I am more like a flow developer and not a network k8s specialist. Also I was previously using prefect version 2 and not 3. The online docs don’t help all that much as they don’t cover enough cases. We are using the prefect-helm charts and have read the few paragraphs under the advanced tab in the prefect docs.
Any other docs or advice
I can read?
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Brendan Dalpe
07/02/2025, 2:16 PM
Hey @Russell Brooks, what are the specific issues you're running into?
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Russell Brooks
07/02/2025, 2:51 PM
If I helm install prefect-server it does show up in a pod and the log file points me to the localhost url. But after port forwarding I can’t get to that page as my laptop won’t know that localhost. So I set value prefectUiApiUrl to the full path:4200/api and port forwarding. But I cannot bring that url up in browser either…
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Brendan Dalpe
07/02/2025, 2:55 PM
Did you set up any ingress configs in your Helm values? Your k8s team should have some kind of way of accessing services in the cluster through your browser.
Brendan Dalpe
07/02/2025, 2:58 PM
If you run port forwarding on your machine, you should be able to access it via localhost in your browser.
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