AWS Deadline Cloud Client

AWS Deadline Cloud client is a multi-purpose python library and command line tool for interacting with and submitting Open Job Description (OpenJD) jobs to AWS Deadline Cloud.

To support building workflows on top of AWS Deadline Cloud, it implements its own user interaction, job creation, file upload/download, and other useful helpers around the service's API. It can function as a pipeline tool, a standalone GUI application, or even be embedded within other applications' runtimes.

Notable features include:

• A command-line interface with subcommands for querying your AWS Deadline Cloud resources, and submitting jobs to your AWS Deadline Cloud Farm.
• A library of functions that implement AWS Deadline Cloud's Job Attachments functionality.
• A library of functions for creating a job submission UI within any content creation tool that supports Python 3.8+ based plugins and the Qt GUI framework.

Compatibility

This library requires:

1. Python 3.8 through 3.13; and
2. Linux, Windows, or macOS operating system.

Versioning

This package's version follows Semantic Versioning 2.0, but is still considered to be in its initial development, thus backwards incompatible versions are denoted by minor version bumps. To help illustrate how versions will increment during this initial development stage, they are described below:

1. The MAJOR version is currently 0, indicating initial development.
2. The MINOR version is currently incremented when backwards incompatible changes are introduced to the public API.
3. The PATCH version is currently incremented when bug fixes or backwards compatible changes are introduced to the public API.

Contributing

We welcome all contributions. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidance on how to contribute. Please report issues such as bugs, inaccurate or confusing information, and so on, by making feature requests in the issue tracker. We encourage code contributions in the form of pull requests.

Getting Started

The AWS Deadline Cloud client can be installed by the standard python packaging mechanisms:

$ pip install deadline

or if you want the optional gui dependencies:

$ pip install "deadline[gui]"

Usage

After installation it can then be used as a command line tool:

$ deadline farm list
- farmId: farm-1234567890abcdefg
  displayName: my-first-farm

or as a python library:

from deadline.client import api
api.list_farms()
# {'farms': [{'farmId': 'farm-1234567890abcdefg', 'displayName': 'my-first-farm', ...},]}

Job-related Files

For job-related files and data, AWS Deadline Cloud supports either transferring files to AWS using job attachments or reading files from network storage that is shared between both your local workstation and your farm.

Job attachments

Job attachments enable you to transfer files between your workstations and AWS Deadline Cloud using Amazon S3 buckets as content-addressed storage in your AWS account. The use of a content-addressed storage means that a file will never need to be uploaded again once it has been uploaded once.

See job attachments for a more in-depth look at how files are uploaded, stored, and retrieved.

Shared storage and storage profiles

Jobs can reference files that are stored on shared network storage. The Deadline Client uses a storage profile to determine which paths on the workstation are part of the network storage and do not need to be transferred using job attachments.

To use an existing storage profile with the Deadline Client, you can configure your default storage profile via CLI:

deadline config set settings.storage_profile_id sp-10b2e48ad6ac4fc88595dfcbef6271f2

Or with the configuration GUI:

deadline config gui

Shared storage is possible with customer-managed fleets (CMF) but not service-managed fleets (SMF). See shared storage for more information.

Job Bundles

A job bundle is one of the tools that you can use to define jobs for AWS Deadline Cloud. They group an Open Job Description (OpenJD) template with additional information such as files and directories that your jobs use with job attachments. You can use this package's command-line interface and/or its Python interface to use a job bundle to submit jobs for a queue to run. Please see the Job Bundles section of the AWS Deadline Cloud Developer Guide for detailed information on job bundles.

At a minimum, a job bundle is a folder that contains an OpenJD template as a file named template.json or template.yaml. However, it can optionally include:

1. An asset_references.yaml file - lists file inputs and outputs.
2. A parameter_values.yaml file - contains the selected values for the job template's parameters.
3. Any number of additional files required for the job.

For example job bundles, visit the samples repository.

To submit a job bundle, you can run

$ deadline bundle submit <path/to/bundle>

or if you have the optional GUI components installed, you can load up a job bundle for submission by running:

$ deadline bundle gui-submit --browse

On submission, a job bundle will be created in the job history directory (default: ~/.deadline/job_history).

Configuration

You can see the current configuration by running:

$ deadline config show

and change the settings by running the associated get, set and clear commands.

To see a list of settings that can be configured, run:

$ deadline config --help

Or you can manage settings by a graphical user-interface if you have the optional GUI dependencies:

$ deadline config gui

By default, configuration of AWS Deadline Cloud is provided at ~/.deadline/config, however this can be overridden by the DEADLINE_CONFIG_FILE_PATH environment variable.

Authentication

In addition to the standard AWS credential mechanisms (AWS Profiles, instance profiles, and environment variables), AWS Deadline Cloud monitor credentials are also supported.

To view the currently configured credentials authentication status, run:

$ deadline auth status
    Profile Name: (default)
          Source: HOST_PROVIDED
          Status: AUTHENTICATED
API Availability: True

If the currently selected AWS Profile is set-up to use AWS Deadline Cloud monitor credentials, you can authenticate by logging in:

$ deadline auth login

and removing them by logging out:

$ deadline auth logout

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Amazon Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opensource-codeofconduct@amazon.com with any additional questions or comments.

Security Issue Notifications

We take all security reports seriously. When we receive such reports, we will investigate and subsequently address any potential vulnerabilities as quickly as possible. If you discover a potential security issue in this project, please notify AWS/Amazon Security via our vulnerability reporting page or directly via email to AWS Security. Please do not create a public GitHub issue in this project.

Telemetry

See telemetry for more information.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.

Optional third party dependencies - GUI

N.B.: Although this repository is released under the Apache-2.0 license, its optional GUI feature uses the third party Qt and PySide projects. The Qt and PySide projects' licensing includes the LGPL-3.0 license.