Prefect as local process without server

[JaktensTid]

Hi, I want Prefect to be an in-app built orchestration workflow engine in my open source project and leverage its entire functionality (like saving io of tasks, saving logs, etc) (flows will be executed from my application code as well). Is this possible, or I still need to install prefect server?

[cicdw]

Hey @JaktensTid - as of right now you'll need to setup a server - note that servers can be run "ephemerally", meaning Prefect will automatically start the server in a subprocess so you don't need a longstanding API. Whether or not this is a good idea for your app I can't say. That being said, we are interested in supporting an execution mode that doesn't persist metadata to a server at all; we haven't planned this work yet but if others are interested we can consider picking it up sooner rather than later.