Hey I just upgraded to prefect 2 0b11 and I ve an agent runn

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Hey I just upgraded to prefect 2 0b11 and I ve an agent running in a rather restrictive kubernetes environment meaning I can t run it as root This results in having this warning at the Agent startup ``` usr local lib python3 9 site packages prefect context py 461 UserWarning Failed to create the Prefect home directory at prefect with SettingsContext profile=profile settings=new settings as ctx ``` While Agent still starts up and picks up flow runs I get the following exception during flow run ```File usr local lib python3 9 pathlib py line 1323 in mkdir self accessor mkdir self mode FileNotFoundError Errno 2 No such file or directory prefect storage ``` I guess this has something to do with removing storage default storage in the latest release I configured my deployment with a RemoteFileSystem Packager not sure why prefect still needs to write something locally Find my flow + deployment in the Thread

Andreas Nigg · Answer

```from prefect import flow task from prefect deployments import Deployment from prefect filesystems import RemoteFileSystem from prefect logging import get run logger from prefect packaging import FilePackager task def greet world logger = get run logger Hello world flow def give greeting gt str greet world minio packager = FilePackager filesystem=RemoteFileSystem basepath= settings= type service account project id Deployment flow=give greeting name= minio file package with remote s3fs tags= os4 packager=minio packager if name == main give greeting ```

Andreas Nigg · Answer

By the way sorry for the bad variable names I use an object called minio packager for GCS facepalm

Anna Geller · Answer

Thanks for reporting that I assume this is the place where Prefect wants to store local results now but which didn t get created automatically let me open an issue and ask the team why this folder < Marvin> open 2 0b11 throws `FileNotFoundError Errno 2 No such file or directory prefect storage ` with Orion set up on Kubernetes

Marvin · Answer

Andreas Nigg · Answer

Hey < Anna Geller> thanks for the reply My description was not enough sorry I use prefect 2 0 cloud I us an agent on kubernetes In general if the agent has the permissions to write eg if the kubernetes agent is run as root then there is not a problem However if I can t run the agent as root then I oftentimes don t have these write permissions I added these details to the github issue

Andreas Nigg · Answer

Just in this minute I was able to workaround this issue by manually creating a Dockerfile for the Agent which manually sets permissions for this folder Then it works However it seems a little problematic to manually create a folder than set permissions already in the Agent build step ```FROM prefecthq prefect 2 0b11 python3 9 COPY requirements txt RUN python3 m pip install upgrade pip amp amp python3 m pip install r requirements txt RUN mkdir prefect amp amp chgrp R 0 prefect amp amp chmod R g=u prefect ```

Anna Geller · Answer

I updated it too will ask the team thanks a lot

Matthias · Answer

Another possibility is to add an `emptyDir` volume and an init container in which you change permissions of the volume example The manifest it applies to can be found

Andreas Nigg · Answer

Perfect thanks This is a very practical solution