Hi Prefect Team - Can we have Prefect 1 and Prefect 2 on the same Linux box? Are we able to just update the name of the systemd service? It doesn't need to be prefect-agent.service, right? It could be prefect2-agent.service, right?

Hi @Chris Gunderson

Can we have Prefect 1 and Prefect 2 on the same Linux box?

yep! you'd just need to make sure the python env / interpreter you're using to start each agent is appropriate for the version

It doesn't need to be prefect-agent.service, right? It could be prefect2-agent.service, right?

right! afaik there's nothing special about the name of your systemd config file, most important things are that each one has its own

Environment

variables and that the

ExecStart

command uses the appropriate

prefect agent start

command for the version

Thanks for confirming that Nate. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you too! actually, let me confirm the first point - don't want to accidentally lead you astray

Thanks Nate

sure thing!

@Nate In prefect 2, can we use a docker image as an agent when creating the service above? Prefect1 had something like this: prefect agent docker start --key "" --label "xyz" --volume "abc"

In prefect 1 you could mount volumes to all flow run containers submitted by the docker agent during the

prefect agent start

cmd but now in prefect 2 that's something you would specify in your `DockerContainer` infrastructure block (there's a volumes attr) and then attach to a deployment, which the agent would submit. Prefect 2 agents are more general, and are capable of submitting flow runs on any type of infrastructure (as long as the host machine supports it)

Right, I was more concerned with installing prefect on the linux server in the venv. I'll need to understand that well. I might spin up a new environment to test this out.

Right, I was more concerned with installing prefect on the linux server in the venv.

ahh apologies if I misunderstood, feel free to ask more questions here if you have trouble doing so

Will do. Thanks Nate. This is probably a Tuesday issue since most people are out of the office now. Have a good weekend and thanks for getting back to me.

marvin same to you - anytime!