Explore Prefect concepts

Concept	Description
Flows	A Prefect workflow, defined as a Python function.
Tasks	Discrete units of work in a Prefect workflow.
Deployments	A server-side concept that encapsulates flow metadata, allowing it to be scheduled and triggered via API.
Work Pools & Workers	Use Prefect to dynamically provision and configure infrastructure in your execution environment.
Schedules	Tell the Prefect API how to create new flow runs for you automatically on a specified cadence.
Results	The data returned by a flow or a task.
Artifacts	Formatted outputs rendered in the Prefect UI, such as markdown, tables, or links.
States	Rich objects that capture the status of a particular task run or flow run.
Blocks	Prefect primitives that enable the storage of configuration and provide a UI interface.
Task Runners	Configure how tasks are run - concurrently, in parallel, or in a distributed environment.
Automations	Configure actions that Prefect executes automatically based on trigger conditions.

Block and Agent-Based Deployments	Description
Block-based Deployments	Create deployments that rely on blocks.
Infrastructure	Blocks that specify infrastructure for flow runs created by a deployment.
Storage	Lets you configure how flow code for deployments is persisted and retrieved.
Agents	Like untyped workers.

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