Prefect Docs

# Installation

Looking for the latest Prefect 2 release? Prefect 2 and Prefect Cloud 2 have been released for General Availability. See https://docs.prefect.io/ for details.

# Basic installation

Prefect requires Python 3.7+. If you're new to Python, we recommend installing the Anaconda distribution.

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Note with the general availability of Prefect 2.0, you will have to specify the Prefect version when installing or updating Prefect 1.0 via a package manager.

To install Prefect 1.0, run:

# Installing optional dependencies

Prefect ships with a number of optional dependencies, which can be installed using "extras" syntax:

pip install "prefect[extra_1, extra_2]"

Examples of extra packages include:

  • all_extras: includes all of the optional dependencies
  • dev: tools for developing Prefect itself
  • templates: tools for working with string templates
  • viz: tools for visualizing Prefect flows
  • aws: tools for interacting with Amazon Web Services
  • azure: tools for interacting with Microsoft Azure
  • google: tools for interacting with Google Cloud Platform
  • kubernetes: tools for interacting with Kubernetes API objects
  • twitter: tools for interacting with the Twitter API
  • airtable: tools for interacting with the Airtable API
  • spacy: tools for building NLP pipelines using Spacy
  • redis: tools for interacting with a Redis database

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