Hiya! Quick question on best practices in Prefect 1. With a flow-of-flows, is there an ideal way to pass values down to child flows? In particular, secrets? Parameters seem fine for everything else.

Hi @Blake, wouldn’t the subflow be able to pull it as well?

Yeah, we could have secret references in the subflows as well - but was wondering if there's a way to pass "secure" parameters from parent to child.

you could store it in Cloud and pass the Secret name as a Parameter to pull. Maybe like:

with Flow()
    secret_name = Parameter("secret_name")
    PrefectSecret()(secret_name)

Just note to pass it to the run method

Interesting! I guess that would work w/ Server too, as long as it was a secret type supported by the runtime environment. Thanks!

Yes it should. If you pass the secret_name to the init like

PrefectSecret(secret_name)

I don’t think that will work. it really needs to be run time because the init will be evaluated during registration time