Hi Folks I m finding myself in a pickle I was in before wher

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Hi Folks I m finding myself in a pickle I was in before where I m trying to just pull a secret from my cloud setup and I did this in my python script in the last place I ran prefect but I can t get it to work While I was developing I was able to simply set the use local secrets = False and I could just pull down a secret but I can t get it to work anymore I only see one short blurb about getting cloud secrets in the prefect API docs around secrets Can someone help me with the right commands I m getting a message that it keeps looking for it locally

Jacob Bedard · Answer

I tried running prefect config cloud use local secrets=False beforehand but it doesn t seem to do anything

Jacob Bedard · Answer

I was able to solve this last time I ran into it but I can t remember how and the docs don t have quite what I need

Kevin Kho · Answer

I think you want ```export PREFECT CLOUD USE LOCAL SECRETS=false```

Jacob Bedard · Answer

That s for the CLI though right Wasn t there a python command for this

Jacob Bedard · Answer

Also I can t find the config toml file Does that go somewhere different when prefect is installed in a conda environment

Jacob Bedard · Answer

Oh I had to make one I discovered I located the prefect dir then used touch and vi to create a config file with that one setting in it

Jacob Bedard · Answer

I was able to pull it down after that

Jacob Bedard · Answer

Thanks for checking It might be good to add a note in the config docs page that the document doesn t exist until you make it

Kevin Kho · Answer

Oh glad you got it sorted out