Has anybody successfully installed Prefect on a GCP Compute

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Has anybody successfully installed Prefect on a GCP Compute Engine instance I m following this tutorial but running into some issues during the installation <https medium com the prefect blog prefect server 101 deploying to google cloud platform 47354b16afe2> ```ModuleNotFoundError No module named markupsafe ```

Kevin Kho · Answer

This is weird What is your Python version

Danilo Drobac · Answer

3 7 5

Kevin Kho · Answer

What is your OS for the compute engine

Danilo Drobac · Answer

Ubuntu 18 04

Kevin Kho · Answer

I ve done this before and it s worked for me If I have to guess you pip might be using Python 2 7 but I m not super sure You could also try installing that library manually

Danilo Drobac · Answer

I m using `python3 7 m pip install ` to install everything so don t think it s a Python version issue

Danilo Drobac · Answer

I ve tried a few things to change the versions of Jinja2 and Markupsafe but nothing has worked so far

Danilo Drobac · Answer

I ll keep looking into it

Anna Geller · Answer

try using Ubuntu 20 04 LTS instead it comes prepackaged with Python 3 8 it s hard to make it work on Ubuntu 18 04 since it uses Python 3 6 and Prefect 1 0 requires gt = Python 3 7

Anna Geller · Answer

also do you know about Prefect 2 0 already if you re just getting started you may start with <https discourse prefect io t should i start with prefect 2 0 orion skipping prefect 1 0 544|Prefect 2 0> directly

Danilo Drobac · Answer

Okay excellent I ll look into this later I was just following the tutorial for ease but I ll see if I can get that working

Danilo Drobac · Answer

Am I missing the concept of how this works I still can t quite understand how we set up an Instance of prefect on a VM for example Or do we have to utilise Prefect Cloud along with Prefect 2 0

Anna Geller · Answer

For Prefect 2 0 we have You can deploy it e g to a VM pretty much the same way as you would with any Python web app install the required libraries incl SQLite if you use this backend and then start the services Check