THE HYBRID MODEL

Cloud Convenience; On-Prem Security

Prefect's hybrid execution model keeps your code and data private while still taking full advantage of our managed workflow orchestration service.

It's so innovative, we patented it.

Execution in your cloud; orchestration in ours.

We designed the hybrid model to meet the strict standards of major financial institutions and companies that work with regulated data.

Prefect Cloud never receives your code or data. It orchestrates Prefect 1.0, running on your private infrastructure, by exchanging state information and metadata.

STEP 01 | PREFECT 1.0
Build Your Flow

Design and test your workflow with our open-source Prefect 1.0 framework.

STEP 02 | CLOUD
Register Your Flow

Send metadata (but never code!) to Prefect Cloud in order to register your flow for execution.

STEP 03 | PREFECT 1.0
Run an Agent

Run an open-source Prefect Agent on your infrastructure. The Agent monitors Cloud for scheduled work.

STEP 04 | CLOUD
Schedule Work

Use Prefect Cloud to schedule a new run of your flow.


STEP 05 | PREFECT 1.0
Run the Flow

The Agent runs the flow on your infrastructure and sends state updates back to Cloud.

STEP 06 | CLOUD
Monitor and Manage

Use the Cloud UI to monitor all of your flow runs, no matter where or how often they run. 

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from prefect import task, Flow

@task
def say_hello():
    print("Hello, world!")


with Flow("My First Flow") as flow:
    say_hello()


flow.run() # "Hello, world!"
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