👋 I don't understand how to create a deployment where the code is in a subdirectory in GitLab/Github

my_project.git
/src/
/src/dbt/
/src/dbt/Earthfile # Equivalent to Dockerfile
/src/dbt/my_prefect_job.py
/src/dbt/...

And my Earthfile is like

FROM prefecthq/prefect:2.7-python3.10
WORKDIR /code
...
COPY . .

And so

my_prefect_job.py

is under

/code/my_prefect_job.py

in my docker image and under

/src/dbt/

in my gitlab repository But once deployed, the run output the following

Downloading flow code from storage at 'src/dbt'

Flow could not be retrieved from deployment.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 879, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1016, in get_code
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1073, in get_data
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/code/prefect_job.py'

And so I don't understand why it cannot find my flow in gitlab under the right subdirectory nor the flow in the docker contain under the right path 🤷 Did not find any good example about github/gitlab subdir storage strategy. Thanks in advance 🙏

I'm curious what would happen if you

COPY . /opt/prefect/flows/

instead?

I can try but I don't understand why it should work as I specified the WORKDIR in my Dockerfile

my guess would be because that’s not the entrypoint for the flow, and isn’t part of the pythonpath

What is weird is that

/code/prefect_job.py

exists in my docker image while

/src/dbt/my_prefect_job.py

exists in my repository And I don't know for which source (docker image or repository) this FileNotFoundError refers to

You should have

path

and

entrypoint

- path is the relative path of your remote storage, and entrypoint is the file/flow defined. https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/main/src/prefect/deployments.py#L240 So i’d expect something like

path=/src/dbt/

and

entrypoint=my_prefect_job.py:<flowname>

Not sure if this helps but I had that same issue here and solved it by making sure the github relative path matches the entrypoint path.

prefect deployment build -a data-products/src/orchestration/main_orchestration_flow.py:main_orchestration_flow -sb github/data-flows-dev/data-products/src/orchestration --name base

Yes I made it work with something similar 🙌