Installation

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Basic installation

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

To install Prefect, run:

$ pip install prefect

$ conda install -c conda-forge prefect

pipenv install --pre prefect

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