Hey all, I'm working on a Prefect 2.0 implementation on docker running on GCP compute engine. One issue is the bash script to get everything up and running. This is what I came up with, which seems to work. I'm wondering if I am overcomplicating this and there is an easier way to do it? The same thing was much simpler with Prefect 1.0 (set api key, register flow, then start agent).

prefect cloud login --key <MY_KEY> -w <MY_WORKSPACE>

rand="GCS_"$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 16)

output=$(printf '%s\n' 2 <MY_BUCKET> <MY_PROJECT> $rand | prefect storage create)

storage_id=$(echo $output | grep -oP "(?<=identifier \').+?(?=\')")

prefect storage set-default $storage_id

prefect deployment create my_flow.py

output=$(prefect work-queue create my_queue | grep -oP "(?<=UUID\(\').+?(?=\'\))")

prefect agent start $output

Ah I see. It’s because of a lot of referencing by id like with the agent using a work queue that causes a lot more boilerplate. I think this might be simplified when changes to specify by name happen so you can name everything ahead of time. The storage interface will also change

You can specifying work queues by name already in 2.0b3

Ok, thanks that's helpful. I tried using local storage instead of GCS but ran into this issue: https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/CL09KU1K7/p1650504918891289

2.0b4 (planned for Thursday) will resolve that bug. There’s a PR at https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/pull/5710 if you wanted that code early.