Explore Prefect concepts

Keyword	Description
Flows	A Prefect workflow, modeled as a Python function.
Tasks	Discrete units of work in a Prefect workflow.
Deployments	A server-side concept that encapsulates a flow, allowing it to be scheduled and triggered via API.
Work Pools & Workers	Bridge the Prefect orchestration environment with your execution environment.
Schedules	Tell the Prefect API how to create new flow runs for you automatically on a specified cadence.
Results	The data returned by a flow or a task.
Artifacts	Formatted outputs rendered in the Prefect UI, such as markdown, tables, or links.
States	The status of a particular task run or flow run.
Blocks	Prefect primitives that enable the storage of configuration and provide a UI interface.
Task Runners	Enable you to engage specific executors for Prefect tasks, such as concurrent, parallel, or distributed execution of tasks.
Automations	Configure actions that Prefect executes automatically based on trigger conditions.
Filesystems	Blocks that allow you to read and write data from paths.

Block and Agent-Based Deployments	Description
Block-based Deployments	Create deployments that rely on blocks.
Infrastructure	Blocks that specify infrastructure for flow runs created by a deployment.
Storage	Lets you configure how flow code for deployments is persisted and retrieved.
Agents	Like untyped workers.

Many features specific to Prefect Cloud are in their own subheading.