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Is there a REST API for the flytectl commands by any chance? (e.g. is there an API endpoint you can hit to run something like `flytectl create project` instead of running it as a CLI command?)

yup! we're using <https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway|grpc-gateway> so that all grpc endpoints are accessible over http. in fact, the http endpoints are what <https://github.com/flyteorg/flyteconsole|flyteconsole> uses. the service definition is <https://github.com/flyteorg/flyteidl/blob/master/protos/flyteidl/service/admin.proto|here>

<https://docs.flyte.org/projects/flyteidl/en/latest/protos/docs/service/service.html>

Oooh ok - will check this out. Thank you!

Hi <@UNZB4NW3S> Just looking into the docs on this and can’t seem to find `flytectl register` commands as APIs here?

hey <@U03APPBC2SC> under the hood the command actually calls the CreateWorkflow and CreateTask endpoints

Oh so these endpoints create and register with remote cluster?

So does that mean it both serializes and registers workflows/tasks?

it meaning flytectl? The endpoints only accept the serialized protos

<@UPBBNMXD1> I mean the endpoints - but ok, looks like you have to serialize first and then the endpoint just registers. <@UNZB4NW3S> will browse the code here as well. Thank you both for your quick response!

<@UPBBNMXD1> Sorry one more question regarding serialization - is there a way to do this programmatically or is the only way to serialize using `pyflyte` CLI?

it has to be pyflyte cli b/c it's native to the sdk and doesn't really make sense to do server-side

<@UPBBNMXD1> Is there a documentation for pyflyte you can point to? I can’t seem to find it anywhere in the api reference?

In the docs for example, there’s this command: `pyflyte --pkgs flyte.workflows package --image &lt;registry/repo:version&gt;` - what is `flyte.workflows` here? And right after that, there’s `flytectl register files --project flytesnacks --domain development --archive flyte-package.tgz --version v1` Where is the `flyte-package.tgz` coming from?

Flyte.workflows is the python package under the source root

This implies the python package to use to find all workflows to register

Hmm - but there is no python packaged called `flyte` , is there? Isn’t it `flytekit` ? Sorry if I’m misunderstanding what you mean by python package