Hi <#CL09KU1K7|>, does anyone have any experience ...
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Dung Khuc
05/30/2022, 7:18 PMHi #CL09KU1K7, does anyone have any experience running prefect agent in Windows Server?
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Anna Geller
05/30/2022, 8:06 PM
The answer to this can be yes/no - not sure whether this would help you :)
What's your actual question? are you just getting started with Prefect? We plan to have a release for Prefect 2.0 with Windows support within the next two weeks
This page may point you to the right resources
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Dung Khuc
05/31/2022, 5:37 PMWhat do you mean by Windows support in Prefect 2.0? Is it for Server or Agent?
Dung Khuc
05/31/2022, 5:41 PMWe have some VMs in our network that's running Windows Server as the OS, not Linux. We want to run Prefect Agent there but not sure what would be the best practices for that. Documentation on Agent installation seems to target specifically Linux systems.
https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/agents/overview.html#agent-types
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Anna Geller
05/31/2022, 6:42 PM
the linked topic explains the difference between 1.0 and 2.0
you can use Windows Server to host both local and Docker agents for 1.0
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Dung Khuc
06/01/2022, 6:59 AM@Anna Geller do you have any recommendation on how to keep the agent (local/docker) always up and running in windows?
Dung Khuc
06/01/2022, 7:00 AMAlso I need to ensure that the agent will be started automatically after a reboot
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Anna Geller
06/01/2022, 9:44 AM
there is something like Windows Service Manager - there is some Windows service to run daemon processes on Windows, can you ask your server admins? it works the same way as any long-running background process
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Dung Khuc
06/01/2022, 11:52 AMWe can. That probably will take some more time than to handle that within our team but probably the only way to to go. Thanks for helping!
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Anna Geller
06/01/2022, 1:57 PM
I think it's literally called Windows Service
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Dung Khuc
06/01/2022, 3:02 PMThanks for the article, I'll have our team test that out
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