Tutorial Overview

These tutorials provide examples of Prefect core concepts and step-by-step instructions on how to use them. For specific examples of how to perform more advanced tasks, check out our guides.

If you have used Prefect 1 ("Prefect Core") and are familiar with Prefect workflows, we still recommend reading through these first steps, particularly Run a flow within a flow. Prefect 2 flows and subflows offer significant new functionality.

Prerequisites

Before you start, install Prefect:

pip install -U prefect

See the install guide for more detailed instructions.

Tutorials

If you've never used Prefect before, let's start by exploring the core concepts:

1. Flows & tasks - the core elements of Prefect.
2. Configuration - enhance your flows and tasks with parameters, retries, caching, and task runners.
3. Execution - configure how your flows and tasks run.
4. Orchestration - the components of Prefect that enable coordination and orchestration of your flow and task runs.
5. Deployments - enable remote flow run execution.
6. Storage & Infrastructure - specify where your flow code is stored and how to configure the execution environment.