Hi Team Is it possible to run an agent for two different wor

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Hi Team Is it possible to run an agent for two different workspaces for one container Can we have multiple profiles inside a container I don t think it is possible because the Prefect CLI will be pointing to a specific workspace but I thought I d ask instead of just spinning up two ECS instances

Anna Geller · Answer

ECS tasks and really containers in general are meant to run one process application so I would recommend to run one container ECS task for each agent corresponding to each workspace

Anna Geller · Answer

AWS best practice is to use different AWS accounts to separate dev and prod environments and this would be easy to accomplish if you would leverage a separate Prefect Cloud workspace each corresponding to a different AWS environment makes also things much easier to test due to environment parity and separation

Chris Gunderson · Answer

Thanks for your help on this topic This question came up and I didn t want to say it wasn t possible without being certain

Anna Geller · Answer

everything is possible in theory the question is should you do it though joy

Anna Geller · Answer

much easier to have a separation between environments containerized processes

Chris Gunderson · Answer

Thanks for clearing that up That was my first thought but I wanted to see if it was possible and what the suggestion would be