Anyone know if this is actually right? Multiple background services can be ran in one cluster without issues? https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C079VLLH5D3/p1773321271676739?thread_ts=1773320974.101999&cid=C079VLLH5D3

I got told the exact opposite yesterday haha, https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C04DZJC94DC/p1773168974967059

hello! you can indeed scale background services horizontally because of docket

@Nate I think maybe both. I need to look into Docket not sure how that works.

we can add an example here with multiple replicas: https://docs.prefect.io/v3/advanced/self-hosted#docker-compose but generally if you just want to run multiple

prefect server services start

replicas, you can, because docket coordinates perpetual tasks (background services in prefect) via your redis instance autoscaling the

prefect server services start

pods is not something folks typically ask for, but if you have a use case, opening a discussion on why you want to do that would be very helpful!

Thanks for the link to docket also, an oddly hard thing to search for..

it should be mostly an implementation detail as far as prefect is concerned, but if you're interested in learning more the docs are at https://docket.lol

@Nate is it as easy as just using

PREFECT_SERVER_DOCKET_URL

instead of

PREFECT_SERVER_REDIS_URL

(not sure on the exact ENV name)

Oh perfect thanks.