Hello everyone so I can run the basic flow py from my termin

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Hello everyone so I can run the basic flow py from my terminal and it runs successfully But when I deploy the same code and run from the UI It fails because it is looking for my directory `Documents prefect prefect env` What do I need to do so that the path doesn t point to my local file system

Ryan Peden · Answer

You ll want to set up storage for your flow The docs cover it well <https docs prefect io concepts storage > If you have any questions please feel free to ask

Anthony · Answer

Thanks Ryan

Anthony · Answer

I ve updated the code to point to Gitlab storage but I m still getting the following error does not have upload capabilities Any idea what I need to add to resolve this issue

Ryan Peden · Answer

Ah right Deployments can typically upload code to storage that we can treat like a filesystem but we can t interact with Git repos in that way If you want to you GitLab or GitHub storage you ll need to push your code to a GitLab repo and then set up a storage block that points at it the README on the prefect gitlab page walks you through the steps for that <https github com PrefectHQ prefect gitlab> You only need to set up that block once How you use it in your deployment will depend on whether you are creating your deployments via Python or the CLI

Ryan Peden · Answer

For example if you create a GitLab block named `my gitlab storage` you would would add it to a CLI deployment with the ` sb gitlab repository my gitlab storage` flag To add it to a Python deployment you d do something like ```from prefect deployments import Deployment from prefect gitlab import GitLab my storage = GitLab load my gitlab storage my deployment = Deployment build from flow other deployment parameters storage=my storage ```

Anthony · Answer

Yes so the Gitlab repo and storage is already setup and complete I have pushed the basic flow py code into the repo I ve been using the cli to deploy to the environment So how do I tell the system to pull the code from the Gitlab storage block

Anthony · Answer

```prefect deployment build basic flow py basic flow name test deployment sb gitlab repository gitlab repo prefect test q default```

Ryan Peden · Answer

That looks right Are you seeing the does not have upload capabilities error when you run that

Anthony · Answer

yes that is correct

Ryan Peden · Answer

Does it work if you add ` skip upload`

Anthony · Answer

same message

Anthony · Answer

prefect deployment build basic flow py basic flow name test deployment sb gitlab repository gitlab repo prefect test q skip upload

Anthony · Answer

When I try running the deployment from the UI I get the following error No class found for dispatch key gitlab repository in registry for type Block

Ryan Peden · Answer

Is the `prefect gitlab` package installed in the environment where your agent is running

Anthony · Answer

I ve been using the cli to push the code for deployments into the Prefect environment It is a kubernetes cluster

Anthony · Answer

when I run the python code ie `python basic flow py` it runs fine locally

Ryan Peden · Answer

Ok that makes sense I don t think the docs make it very obvious so I ll push a PR to update them but if you want to use a storage block that comes from a separate package like `prefect gitlab` then `prefect gitlab` needs to be installed in the environment that runs your deployments in this case it sounds like you ve got an agent running in K8s

Anthony · Answer

yes I believe it is k8s