Can I schedule Prefect 2.0 flows using CRON jobs instead of using deployments?

[anna_geller]

Yes, you can! Orion allows incremental adoption. Read more on that in this Slack discussion

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@Jared_Robbins: Want to check if what I read about orion is accurate… Right now my team runs a bunch of tasks via cron jobs. Would it be possible to start with 2.0 by only using the scheduler aspect? It’d be cool to have a UI for what has run. edit: I don’t have experience with 1.0 or 2.0

@Jeremiah: Hey Jared, yes! Any @flow decorated function you call will show up in the UI, so if you use cron to kick off a script that calls such a function, you’ll be able to use the UI to explore it. And then the more you add (maybe you decide to add some @task decorators next, for example) the more detail you’ll see.

@Jared_Robbins: Sounds great. I’ll see if I can get a POC going for my boss.

@Jeremiah: :yes:
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