How to define step function name on aws when creating it from a metaflow flow?

Question

I have a metaflow flow which I want to create a step function on aws for it but I want to create 2 step functions to the same flow twice, one as a staging environment and another as production (MY_FLOW_STG and MY_FLOW_PRD)

the command we have to create the step function is:

python MY_FLOW.py step-functions create

this command will force the naming and will not give me the possibility to create the step function twice, any one have an idea?

Answer 1

You can do

SFN_STATE_MACHINE_PREFIX=blah python foo.py step-functions create

to add a custom prefix to your step-functions state-machine.

https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow/issues/372