Has anybody had success with running prefect agent locally as a background process on a windows machine like you can do with supervisor on a linux system? I've found this thread https://discourse.prefect.io/t/how-to-run-your-prefect-agent-as-a-background-process-with-supervisord/1551. but seems like supervisor-win might be broken currently. How else could i go about this?

let me tag @Ryan Peden, he will know that best (he may even have already written a Discourse topic about it and I just don't remember which one is it 😅)

I don't think I have written one yet, but I could! You can wrap the agent in a Windows service using pure Python, but the quickest and easiest way is using NSSM.

@Ryan Peden would absolutely love a topic on it - seems like it could be helpful for other people that might be using windows for one reason or another 🙂

I don't think so, but I'm not sure that any of the other options on Windows would either. However if the agent can't connect to the server properly after a certain number of retries, I believe it will shut itself down anyway, at which point NSSM would restart it.

Great, i will try it out 🙂

lol that name NSSM - is it even true? 😂

The name is true, but the name is also what causes the most resistance when I recommend NSSM. I sort of want to make my own open source app called PWSM (Professional Windows Server Manager) and capture the market of people who want an app that does what NSSM does but don't use it because of its name 😆

I set this up as a scheduled service, it’s been a hot minute and probably like early 2.x but I can find the example