Hey all, (Prefect 1.0) I’m struggling to figure out why flows execute properly locally, but when triggered through Prefect Cloud + Docker Agent running local doesn’t. The flows are stuck in submitted. Anyone have an idea? I can’t find information about the error message “prefect: error: unrecognized arguments: execute flow-run” . Thanks in advance!

check out https://discourse.prefect.io/t/why-is-my-flow-stuck-in-a-submitted-state/201

Thanks Anna, I checked that out before but cannot find an issue with the execution layer. I can manually pull the image from where the agent is running.

it looks like you either don't use the official Prefect base image or you're overriding the entrypoint - here is an example of a Dockerfile https://github.com/anna-geller/packaging-prefect-flows/blob/master/Dockerfile

My base image is the official one. This image was working before without any issues

Can you share your prefect diagnostics output and explain your agent setup? Flow code seems to have been successfully downloaded so GitHub dependency is not an issue here

I think I found the issue. I was importing a variable DEPLOY_ENV from another file, which it wasn’t playing nice with. I use this variable at flow build time to reference the correct docker repo (xxxdev.repo/ xxxprd.repo) and prefect project (dev/prd). Is it better to create separate Prefect environments for different environments rather than projects?

Ahh classic build time vs. runtime issue We have this for 1.0 https://discourse.prefect.io/t/how-to-distinguish-between-various-environments-development-staging-production-in-prefect-flows/179/2 For 2.0 we'll have more robust recipes for handling environments

Thanks Anna, super helpful as always