I want to deploy prefect + UI on a remote machine i own and be able to tunnel into it from my main machine, ideally using docker. is there a good tutorial for this? (e

I don't think it's exactly what you are looking for, but I have a write and a sample Docker Compose config here: https://github.com/rpeden/prefect-docker-compose It shows how to run the various parts of Prefect in Docker, including the API & UI. It doesn't cover tunnelling into the machine, but Tailscale could be a really easy way to set that up.

thank you ser

You're welcome! If you run into anything that doesn't work for you, feel free to post a follow up in this thread 😄

does this run the Orion UI?

Yes - it runs the Orion UI. That dashboard is Prefect 1 only, but if you find it provides you with functionality that you don't see in Orion or Prefect 2 cloud do not, your feedback on that would be very helpful.