Hey All - In the process of upgrading to prefect 2, so far really loving it. Having a few issues though. I am trying to build a custom image to run our flows. Starting with

prefecthq/prefect:2.6.1-python3.10-conda

as a base image. Couple of questions: • When installing a python environment in the container does it mater what it is called? I see the image has a

base

env and a

prefect

env. Should packages be installed in

prefect

env of can I create a new one? • If I create a new env should the Dockerfile include a line to activate the correct env.? • Is there a recipe for creating a custom image from a conda base image? I looked around and did find one, but maybe I missed it?

We include

RUN echo "conda activate prefect" >> ~/.bashrc

to have the image use the Prefect environment by default

Thanks so much @Zanie . Just what I needed to know.

You’re welcome :0

I am not usually a conda user myself, but it seemed like the easiest path to get the correct GDAL binaries and few other things into the container.

If you’re going to extend the image it might be just as easy to apt-get install them from our normal base image? Whatever’s easiest though 🙂

That was actually what I tried first but GDAL is a tricky one because the version we are using (the version available for Ubuntu 22.04) is not available in the Debian repos. I'm sure I could add some other repos and get the correct version that way, but conda includes the binary for whatever version is installed. We shall see how it goes. :)