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Ievgenii Martynenko

05/05/2022, 1:43 PM
Hi again, theoretical question. If most use Docker/K8s to run dataflow on (each dataflow has own image, or each flow executes common image), why do we need Agent at all?
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Kevin Kho

05/05/2022, 1:44 PM
The agent is the done that spins up the new job and deploys the container/pod. The flows do not need to be using a common image and in general, the Agent process is the one that looks for Flows to run from Prefect Cloud. The agent and Flows do different things
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Ievgenii Martynenko

05/05/2022, 1:47 PM
got it, especially for Cloud part
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Anna Geller

05/05/2022, 2:11 PM
this may also be useful