I am trying to use Github Actions for assigning storage to flows and registering them. Does it needs to know all the packages while doing that also?

if you use some imports at the module scope in your flows, then they need to be available/importable in the environment from which you register- here GHA. You can check this recent blog about it https://www.prefect.io/blog/deploying-prefect-flows-with-github-actions/

yeah looked into this already. I am building an image which contains all the dependencies and pushing that ecr. anyway to use that particular images to register the flows as well?

not enough information to tell what's your storage and run config? what agent do you use?

storage is s3 run config is docker run agent is docker agent

from clusters import cluster_creation_flow
from prefect.run_configs import DockerRun
from prefect.storage import S3

storage = S3(bucket="taxonomy-flows")

# Add both Flows to storage
storage.add_flow(cluster_creation_flow)
storage.build()

cpu_run_config = DockerRun(
    image="<http://134123414323.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/taxonomy-flows:latest|134123414323.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/taxonomy-flows:latest>",
    labels=["cpu"],
)

# Reassign the new storage object to each Flow
cluster_creation_flow.storage = storage
cluster_creation_flow.run_config = cpu_run_config

# Register each flow without building a second time
cluster_creation_flow.register(project_name="test_project", build=False)

you don't need to build storage explicitly as it gets built when you register your flow you can use:

import platform
import prefect
from prefect import Flow, Parameter, task
from prefect.client.secrets import Secret
from prefect.storage import S3
from prefect.run_configs import DockerRun
import subprocess

PREFECT_PROJECT_NAME = "community"
FLOW_NAME = "s3_docker_run_local_image"
AGENT_LABEL = "docker"
AWS_ACCOUNT_ID = Secret("AWS_ACCOUNT_ID").get()
STORAGE = S3(
    bucket="prefectdata",
    key=f"flows/{FLOW_NAME}.py",
    stored_as_script=True,
    # this will ensure to upload the Flow script to S3 during registration
    local_script_path=f"{FLOW_NAME}.py",
)

RUN_CONFIG = DockerRun(image="<http://134123414323.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/taxonomy-flows:latest|134123414323.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/taxonomy-flows:latest>", labels=[AGENT_LABEL],)


@task(log_stdout=True)
def hello_world(x: str):
    print(f"Hello {x} from {FLOW_NAME}!")
    print(
        f"Running this task with Prefect: {prefect.__version__} and Python {platform.python_version()}"
    )


with Flow(FLOW_NAME, storage=STORAGE, run_config=RUN_CONFIG,) as flow:
    user_input = Parameter("user_input", default="Marvin")
    hw = hello_world(user_input)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    subprocess.run(
        f"prefect register --project {PREFECT_PROJECT_NAME} -p flows/s3_docker_run_local_image.py",
        shell=True,
    )
    subprocess.run(
        f"prefect run --name {FLOW_NAME} --project {PREFECT_PROJECT_NAME}", shell=True
    )
    subprocess.run(
        f'prefect agent docker start --label {AGENT_LABEL} --volume ~/.aws:/root/.aws"',
        shell=True,
    )

you don't need to build storage explicitly as it gets built when you register your flow

yeah.. i was keeping build as false during registration. can remove that. it is working locally. problem is i want to run the same (registration) in github actions. But the flow is depending on other packages. when ran local it has the packages so it is able to register, but when ran in github actions it is failing. Now I am building the packages using docker image. If somehow we can run the prefect registration code inside that already built dependency container then it is solved. Otherwise I have to build all the packages again on default github container and then register the flows which is a long process.

gotcha - many people package their dependencies into a Python package and then you can install it both in your Docker image as well as in your CI pipeline - example: https://github.com/anna-geller/packaging-prefect-flows/blob/master/setup.py

Okay.. but that will double the time. Found this https://gist.github.com/scottgigante-immunai/d9cf7c4bdbd1746fcb208a7c96b07c2b Trying that

Nice to hear! 🥳