Gradient Installer is a CLI to set up and manage Gradient private clusters on AWS, GCP, Azure, NVIDIA DGX, and bare metal.

Terraform is used under the hood to setup all the infrastructure. Terraform modules can also be used directly to integrate Gradient into an existing Terraform setup.

Prerequisites

• Paperspace account with an appropriate billing plan and API key

• ​AWS S3 bucket to store Terraform state

Installation

To install the Gradient Installer CLI, run the following command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperspace/gradient-installer/master/bin/install)"

gradient-installer update

Profiles

Gradient Installer CLI support multiple profiles. To setup the CLI with a different profile run:

export PAPERSPACE_PROFILE=favorite-team
gradient-installer setup

Usage

Additional Prerequisites

• AWS credentials to an S3 bucket to store cluster state information

• From Pre-installation steps: artifacts bucket and credentials, SSL certificates or Let's Encrypt Settings

• Domain where Gradient will be accessed

• DNS provider information to register your Gradient domain

• (Optional): Service account credentials for a container registry such as Docker Hub. Notebook snapshots and container builds are pushed to this registry.

Setting up a new cluster

gradient-installer clusters up

This will prompt you for information to register and create your private cluster.

Setting up or upgrading an existing cluster

gradient-installer clusters up CLUSTER_HANDLE

Uninstalling a cluster

gradient-installer clusters down CLUSTER_HANDLE