How-to guides

Task-focused guides for common goals. For a minimal first run, use Get started → Installation and Quick start (demo flow). For API, workers, and deployments in depth, see Self-hosted server.

• How to set up IronFlow — clone, Python environment, build the Rust engine, environment variables, PYTHONPATH.
• How to run the server and UI — API + optional Vite UI via scripts/ironflow_server.py.
• How to create and update deployments — create/patch deployments, trigger runs, and configure interval or cron schedules.
• How to port a flow from Prefect — imports, control plane, staying inside the supported subset.

Conceptual background: Concepts overview. Normative limits: Compatibility matrix.