prefect deployment build should not upload data to the block

[felix-ht]

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Prefect Version

2.x

Describe the proposed behavior

Prefect deployment build should not upload data to the storage block. Instead this should be done by apply.

prefect deployment build flow/test.py:test -ib s3/some_block
prefect deployment apply hello_world-depolyment.yaml  #updates the flow on prefect an uploads to s3 block

The yaml holds all the required information anyhow.

Describe the current behavior

prefect deployment build flow/test.py:test -ib s3/some_block # uploads to s3
prefect deployment apply hello_world-depolyment.yaml #updates the flow on prefect

This feels very unintuitive - build should not deploy anything.

With the current state it even feels like there is not even a need for two separate commands. As you always have to run apply after build - otherwise you end up with an inconsistent deployment.

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[bunchesofdonald]

Thanks for the idea @felix-ht! I just wanted to let you know that this feature is available as of 2.3.0, you can now pass --skip-upload to the build command to have it skip uploading. The --apply option was added as well which lets you do build and apply at the same time. https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/deployments/