Hi! I've followed this tutorial to set up a scheduled deployment in Prefect Cloud. I edited the yaml with

schedule:
  cron: '*/5 * * * *'
  timezone: null
  day_or: true
is_schedule_active: true

To have it run every 5 minutes, and then applied it. When I run

prefect agent start -q 'test'

I see output from my deployment every 5 minutes, so its working, but as soon as I

ctrc + C

to exit the output of the agent, it stops, and nothing is scheduled. How do I get the agent to run without my terminal? 🙂

run it as a service https://discourse.prefect.io/t/how-to-run-a-prefect-2-agent-as-a-systemd-service-on-linux/1450

Can I run the agent in the cloud?

prefect dont host your agent no

So I need to have my laptop running for the jobs to run..?

If you are using Linux then "Screen" command will help You can run prefect agent start -q test in the screen and detach it, it will run in background

I come from an Airflow background, on Airflow all execution is on the server. Are you saying that Prefect is not a Airflow replacement? Sorry, I'm just feeling really confused, I just want to kill our Airflow/composer instance 😄

Prefect is just the scheduler and orchestration, the agent and jobs run on your infrastructure

Oh I did not know that. Ok I'll look into how its set up on GCP. Thanks.