Hello, I’m using

fast register

to develop in the

sandbox

environment, and I’d like to configure it to use a storage backend other than

awscli

. Is there any documentation for doing this? We run exclusively in GCP and install

gsutil

in each of our Flyte-ready Docker images. I’m hoping to avoid installing

awscli

in our images just to support running in

sandbox

. Thanks!

also, since you mentioned the sandbox, keep in mind in that environment that we use minio as the blob storage (i.e. it's not really writing to s3, but a drop-in replacement for that).

gotcha, is there any way to use the existing minio in sandbox without

awscli

, say via the HTTP data persistence plugin included in flytekit?

@Chris Hairfield, let's take a step back here. Essentially you don't want to maintain two sets of images, one for the sandbox deployment and one for the production deployment (which is gcp-based). This would not be an issue if we could have a gcp-enabled sandbox, which we currently do not have. The sandbox was supposed to be used as a quick iteration/experimentation tool, not as part of a larger deployment. That said, it is interesting that you're considering that. As for the question about launchplans and

pyflyte run

, you're correct, we do not support launchplans in

pyflyte run

yet. I opened https://github.com/flyteorg/flyte/issues/2998 to track the work to add support for it.

Thanks for opening https://github.com/flyteorg/flyte/issues/2998! That would be very helpful. Yes, you captured my intent exactly. I’d like to avoid either sandbox-specific images or bloating our production images. Sandbox is important to my development workflow as it supports the native scheduler. It’s much faster than testing on GCP. What do you think about supporting this use case?

@Chris Hairfield, let me discuss this with the team. I created https://github.com/flyteorg/flyte/issues/3000 to track this issue for now. How about you link to this issue and install both binaries to unblock you?

I’ll do that for the time being. Thanks for opening the ticket.