Is it possible to have a Kubernetes Agent run a Flow in a di

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Is it possible to have a Kubernetes Agent run a Flow in a different namespace Can this be set via the job template In 1 0

redsquare · Answer

you can pass the namespace into the runner e g flow runner=KubernetesFlowRunner namespace= prefect

Florian Kühnlenz · Answer

Is this in Orion I can t find it in the docs

redsquare · Answer

yep orion

redsquare · Answer

redsquare · Answer

i had to dig into the source for the available param

Florian Kühnlenz · Answer

Okay we need a solution for 1 0

redsquare · Answer

aha ok sorry

redsquare · Answer

i have only used 2 0

redsquare · Answer

redsquare · Answer

available in 1

Anna Geller · Answer

afaik it is not but you can easily deploy a second agent process in this second namespace ```prefect agent kubernetes start namespace my namespace``` don t forget that agent is a lightweight process rather than an entire execution layer

Anna Geller · Answer

I believe the reason for that is more related to Kubernetes permissions rather than Prefect agent limitations it would be difficult to deploy flow run pods from a process running in one Kubernetes namespace to the other namespace because this process has by default no access to that other Kubernetes namespace

Anna Geller · Answer

I m no Kubernetes admin though you may ask on Kubernetes discourse to be sure

Florian Kühnlenz · Answer

Okay We thought the overhead of monitoring and deploying a separate agent is still considerably high hence the question I m also not sure at all about the Kubernetes rights however would have thought that with the right service account it should be possible