User Management for Prefect Server

[ChristianF88]

Hi there,

I work in science and do have to write data pipelines all the time. One very import criterion to choose the right tool for the job is that fellow scientists must be able to interact with variables, setting etc.

Comparing Airflow and Prefect, I know I want to use Prefect. It's great! Thanks for that! However, the self hosted usage is quite restricted.

Or at least I haven't seen any guide on how to set the server up, in a way that it has a more comprehensive set of features.

I was wondering whether the free open source version is planned to get user management as an included feature at some point?

Maybe with the new Iteration of Prefect, version 2.0?

Thank you very much!

Have a great one!
Christian

[taljaards]

Hi @ChristianF88
You can refer to https://discourse.prefect.io/t/why-does-prefect-2-0-doesnt-include-auth-and-rbac-features-as-part-of-the-open-source-package/741

[ChristianF88]

Thank you very much! Do you know whether there're any efforts to incorporate these features becoming part of the open source version of Prefect?

[dinya]

Unfortunelly https://discourse.prefect.io/t/why-does-prefect-2-0-doesnt-include-auth-and-rbac-features-as-part-of-the-open-source-package/741 is broken link. The similar thread wasn't found among the discussions in the GitHub (wasn't exported from discourse platform?).

Dear team, could you please answer the question "Why does Prefect 2.0 doesn't include auth and rbac features as part of the open source package?" (and Prefect 3.x too at least in 3.3.x)?

Are there any plans to include these features in the open source version?

[cicdw]

There are no plans to include user management features in Prefect open source at this time. Prefect 3.0 does include basic authentication but it's not user based.

[abarya]

Hey @cicdw, can you please point me to the docs for this basic auth you mentioned?

[cicdw]

Yup here you go: https://docs.prefect.io/v3/develop/settings-and-profiles#security-settings

[abarya]

Thanks, will try this.