Hello, I'm using prefect 1 with kubernetes agents, so far i used to launch through

prefect agent kubernetes start

and i am trying to migrate to

prefect agent kubernetes install

to generate a yaml file. I use the --job-template option which is not available with agent *install*, is there a workaround ?

Hi Emma,

kubernetes start

and

kubernetes install

are two separate commands. Here is the template that comes by default: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/1.x/src/prefect/agent/kubernetes/job_template.yaml You can pass it in when you start the agent: https://docs-v1.prefect.io/orchestration/agents/kubernetes.html#custom-job-template

Hi @Christopher Boyd i would like to stop using the command

kubernetes start

to launch my agent as a kubernetes process, hence why i used

kubernetes install

to generate the yaml file but still miss the job template and I can't find how to add it 😕

Are you running in cluster, or external to the cluster

I'm not sure to understand the question 🤔 i execute the command outside of the cluster (with kubeconfig) where my actual agent is running, I want the agent inside the cluster but with the job template as it holds needed configuration

Ok, I understand now, I’ll need a few minutes

Thanks a lot, no rush as its getting late in my location Ill probably continue next week 🙂

If you have a standard job template you would like to use, you can replace the job_template in the image: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/1.x/src/prefect/agent/kubernetes/job_template.yaml

Thanks a lot ! I will try those and keep you updated 😊

essentially, it’s just taking the default image in the deployment spec: prefecthq/prefect:1.4.1-python3.7 and updating to include your own job-template in the image

@Christopher Boyd Finally had time to complete that, I did as you suggested . For anyone stumbling accross this, I built a custom prefect image containing my job_template, changed the start command in the agent.yaml generated by kubernetes install, and I also had to apply this file in the same workspace https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/1.x/src/prefect/agent/kubernetes/rbac.yaml to have the correct permissions on my agent. It worked as intended, thanks a lot 🙂