Remotes Cheatsheet

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Overview

The examples below apply to Guild user configuration. For a complete reference of remote configuration, see Remotes Reference.

SSH

The following is a minimal SSH remote configuration. Runs are located on the remote host under the Guild home ~/.guild where ~ is the home directory for the default user associated with remote-hostname.

remotes:
  ssh-remote:
    type: ssh
    description: Remote runs
    host: remote-hostname

Note that ssh defaults are specified according to the SSH implementation on the local (client) system. Refer to the documentation for your SSH client for details on configuring defaults.

The next example defines additional SSH settings as well as a Guild environment.

remotes:
  production:
    type: ssh
    description: Production runs
    host: remote-hostname
    user: ubuntu
    port: 2222
    guild-env: ~/Envs/production
    init: test -e ~/Envs/production || guild init -y ~/Envs/production

Note that init defines a command that creates a Guild environment if one doesn’t exist. Use guild remote start production --reinit to ensure that the environment is setup correctly before running Guild commands.

EC2

The following is a minimal example of an EC2 remote:

remotes:
  ec2-v100:
    type: ec2
    description: NVIDIA V100 on EC2
    region: us-east-2
    ami: ami-0a47106e391391252
    instance-type: p3.2xlarge
    public-key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
    user: ubuntu

S3

The following example stores runs directly in my-s3-production-runs bucket.

remotes:
  s3-production:
    type: s3
    description: Production runs
    bucket: my-s3-production-runs

You can use root to store runs under a bucket path.

remotes:
  s3-test:
    type: s3
    description: Test runs
    bucket: my-s3-runs
    root: test

  s3-production:
    type: s3
    description: Production runs
    bucket: my-s3-runs
    root: production

Azure VM

The following is a minimal example of an Azure VM remote:

remotes:
  azure-debian:
    type: azure-vm
    description: Debian VM
    image: Debian:debian-10:10:latest
    instance-type: Standard_DS1_v2
    disk-type: Premium_LRS
    public-key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
    user: azureuser

Azure Blob

The following example stores in the default folder in the specified container. Note that root is optional.

remotes:
  azure-dev:
    type: azure-blob
    description: Development runs
    container: https://myco.blob.core.windows.net/guild-dev-runs

Gist

The following example stores runs in a GitHub gist for user jack. The gist is identified using a specially named Guild README file containing the gist name shared-runs.

remotes:
  shared:
    type: gist
    user: jack
    gist-name: shared-runs

To write to this gist, specify a gist-authorized personal access token with the environment variable GIST_ACCESS_TOKEN.