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Prefect 2.4.1 Adds K8s Agent Manifest, Improved Helm Charts, Notifications & Firebolt Integration

…and many enhancements based on user feedback!

Anna Geller
6 min readSep 22, 2022
Prefect Marvin and Firebolt shipping workflows to Kubernetes

We’ve just released Prefect 2.4.1. It includes enhancements that significantly improve the user experience around notifications and blocks, as well as deploying Prefect agents to Kubernetes. Apart from that, this release ships with some critical behind-the-scenes changes that we’ll briefly cover at the end.

Improved notifications experience

Sending alerts on failed or completed runs can easily get dismissed as table stakes features. But doing it the right way is more nuanced — many tools require boilerplate code or a complicated setup.

With Prefect, you can configure notifications in just a couple of clicks from the UI, and still use those in code when needed. To demonstrate that, here is how you can set up Slack alerts to get notified about completed or failed runs:

One common request we’ve heard from users is that they would like to receive a link to the flow run UI page directly in the notification message. PR…

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Anna Geller
Anna Geller

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