How to run Prefect Server as a background process?

[thlanza]

Hello!

I have a remote linux server running a prefect server.
When I start the server, using “prefect server start”, the dashboard works.
However, when I exit the server, the dashboard stops working.
How can I run “prefect server start” in the background?

Thanks a lot!

[anna_geller]

Welcome to Discourse, @thlanza!

Perhaps you can leverage Supervisor? There are many daemon services allowing you to run background processes

http://supervisord.org/

You may also look at this Helm chart:

server/helm/prefect-server at master · PrefectHQ/server

Apart from that, if you are just getting started with Prefect, perhaps it makes sense to start with Prefect 2.0?

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