Hello What is the best practice when establishing prefect on

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Hello What is the best practice when establishing prefect on the cloud Should it run in a cloud instance or in a docker container in a cloud instance

Jeff Hale · Answer

I m not sure I understand your question Bebeto A Docker container is not necessary but Docker has some conveniences and complexities Are you trying to run Prefect 2 flows in AWS or another cloud provider

Michael Shoemaker · Answer

Not to piggy back on this but I m curious as well Say I want to create a VM on GCP and run Prefect there Is there a good docker compose example or other resources which show how one would go about this

Jeff Hale · Answer

Hi Michael You could just install conda into your GCP Compute Engine instance and put your agent there and run flows The has some conveniences You can put your flow code in a GCP Cloud Storage bucket Prefect 2 ships with that you just need to install `gcsfs` walks through storage and infrastructure If you want to see an example that uses Docker Compose but not on GCP

Bebeto Nyamwamu · Answer

< Jeff Hale> I m having this error ` Errno 99 error while attempting to bind on address my gcp compute public ip 4200 cannot assign requested address` when I run `prefect orion start` please help

Jeff Hale · Answer

Looks like maybe you need to enter your GCP address instead of the string `my gcp compute public ip`

Bebeto Nyamwamu · Answer

i did but its not working

Jeff Hale · Answer

If you can share the traceback and a minimum reproducible example that might be helpful

Bebeto Nyamwamu · Answer

```INFO Started server process 234109 INFO Waiting for application startup INFO Application startup complete ERROR Errno 99 error while attempting to bind on address my gcp compute public ip 4200 cannot assign requested address INFO Waiting for application shutdown INFO Application shutdown complete Orion stopped ```

Bebeto Nyamwamu · Answer

thats the info I get after running `prefect orion start`

Bebeto Nyamwamu · Answer

`prefect config set PREFECT ORION API HOST=my gcp compute public ip`

Jeff Hale · Answer

Sorry if I m misunderstanding but `my gcp compute public ip` is just a stand in for your actual public IP you re using that IP address

Bebeto Nyamwamu · Answer

yeah it is a place holder for the real ip I don t think it is appropriate to share the ip here

Jeff Hale · Answer

Yes that s fine Just couldn t tell

Jaafar · Answer

< Jeff Hale> I am looking for a simple way to use prefect 2 0 on GCP Is still relevant for prefect 2 0 If not could you please recommend one Thanks