ibm-ray-config 1.0.0b1

Interactive tool generating ray configuration for IBM platforms

Ray Configuration Generator For IBM-Cloud Services

ibm-ray-config is a CLI tool that greatly simplifies user experience by generating Ray configuration files for IBM services. Currently supporting only IBM Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

Setup

The tool has been mostly tested with Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 and Fedora 35, but should work with most Linux systems.
Requirements: ssh-keygen utility installed:

sudo apt install openssh-client

Install ibm-ray-config from pip repository

pip install ibm-ray-config

Usage

Use the configuration tool as follows:

ibm-ray-config [--iam-api-key IAM_API_KEY] [--endpoint ENDPOINT] [-i INPUT_FILE] [-o OUTPUT_PATH] [--compute-iam-endpoint IAM_ENDPOINT] [--version] 

Get a short description of the available flags via ibm-ray-config --help

Flags Detailed Description

Key	Default	Mandatory	Additional info
iam-api-key		yes	IBM Cloud API key. To generate a new API Key, adhere to the following guide
input-file	<compute_backend>/defaults.py	no	Existing config file to be used as a template in the configuration process
output-path	A randomly generated path to a randomly named yaml file	no	A custom location the config file will be written to
version		no	Returns ibm-ray-config's package version
endpoint		no	Geographical location for deployment and scope for available resources by the IBM-VPC service. Endpoint urls are listed here.
compute_iam_endpoint	https://iam.cloud.ibm.com	no	Alternative IAM endpoint url for the cloud provider, e.g. https://iam.test.cloud.ibm.com

Using ibm-ray-config Config Tool Programmatically

Attention: though not all fields are mandatory, unspecified resources will be created automatically on the backend.

IBM Gen2 VPC

Mandatory fields are: iam_api_key and region. Processor architecture: Intel x86.

Unspecified Fields will be replaced with the following values:

• vpc_id - If available a random one will be chosen. Otherwise (if no VPC exists) a new VPC named:ray-default-vpc- will be created and a random floating-ip will be assigned to the subnet's gateway. The process may create a new floating-ip if no unbound ip exists.
• ssh_key_filename (path to private ssh-key) - A new one will be created and registered under the specified region.
• key_id (ssh-key on the IBM-VPC platform) - If ssh_key_filename instead specified the public key will be generated and registered, otherwise, a new key will be created and registered.
• image_id - The VMs image will be Ubuntu 20.04.
• profile_name - 'bx2-2x8', which equates to: 2CPUs, 8GiB RAM, 100GB storage.
• min_workers - 0.
• max_workers - 0.

Example:

from ibm_ray_config import generate_config

api_key = '<IAM_API_KEY>'
region = 'eu-de'
generate_config(iam_api_key=api_key, region=region, image_id='r010-5a674db7-95aa-45c5-a2f1-a6aa9d7e93ad', key_id='r010-fe6cb103-60e6-46bc-9cb5-14e415990849', ssh_key_filename='/home/kpavel/.ssh/id_rsa', profile_name='bx2-2x8', vpc_id='r010-af1adda4-e4e5-4060-9aa2-7a0c981aff8e', min_workers=1, max_workers=1)

Minimal example using mandatory fields:

from ibm_ray_config import generate_config

api_key = <IAM_API_KEY>
region = 'eu-de'
config_file = generate_config(iam_api_key=api_key, region=region)

Test and Usage

Attention: to run multiple clusters under the same VPC, make sure their cluster names (cluster_name in the config file) are unique.

To deploy a Ray cluster with the configuration created, please use the Gen2-connector . Follow the instructions via the provided link to test your configuration files.