Is there a direct equivalent of ECS Agent in Prefect Orion

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Anna Geller · Answer

short answer not yet long answer <https discourse prefect io t can i use ecs on fargate with prefect 2 0 is an ecsflowrunner on the roadmap 843|here>

marque · Answer

I see thank you for sharing

marque · Answer

Seems like I d have to stick with 1 0 for now then Unfortunately it wouldn t make sense for us cost wise to run the agent on ec2 and have it execute flows on the same instance because we are running ML training flows Would prefer to have a small ecs instance running the agent and have it launch large +gpu ECS tasks for training

Anna Geller · Answer

did you read the link I sent

Anna Geller · Answer

there is explanation how you can still get all the cost benefits of Fargate using EKS on Fargate

marque · Answer

Yes but our team also has similar doubts regarding kubernetes as Julian we re pretty hesitant to jump over towards adopting kubernetes since we have a lot of existing Infra amp app code set up for ecs Doesn t help that there s no one in our team that has experience with kubernetes

Anna Geller · Answer

that makes sense totally understandable I m planning on releasing a tutorial showing how you can still use ECS Fargate with Prefect 2 0 if you want to get notified subscribe to this tag on Discourse <https discourse prefect io tag ecs>

marque · Answer

Awesome looking forward to it