Hey y’all. I’m new to Prefect and I think it’s rad. The local version of Prefect is easy enough, but I’m a little confused by secrets in Prefect Cloud. I’m trying to write to a Postgres RDS instance on AWS. The script I’m using writes to an existing table with

<http://pandas.to|pandas.to>_sql

. Apologies if this is answered in docs somewhere, but how do I pass my secrets to Prefect Cloud? I have 2 cases. In the first case I can run the script locally and pass the secrets as env vars, but in the second case, I’m hoping to run the job on Prefect Cloud once a week. Any help would be great! Thanks.

Hi @John Ramey, for Cloud you set you secret ahead of time, And then you invoke it from your Flow:

with Flow(...) as flow:
    PrefectSecret("YOUR_SECRET")

If you want to use it in the a task, you can do

Secret("YOUR_SECRET").get()

and then it will fetch it during runtime and your Flow is executing. Does that make sense?

first off, thanks for the link. i had seen only the link for Prefect core: https://docs.prefect.io/core/concepts/secrets.html

Sounds good!