How to install Prefect 2.0 on a Linux VM

When you try installing Prefect on Python 3.10 with Conda, make sure to pin this openssl package version:

conda install openssl=1.1.1

Reason: the cryptography package is looking for the libssl 1.1.1 dylib but conda removed it.

More background on this:

https://discourse.prefect.io/t/scaling-prefect-whats-the-difference-between-ephemeral-and-hosted-api/1990

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