Setting up

valohai-utils streamlines pipeline definition and writing Valohai-compatible code. This is achieved by offering utility functions for the most common tasks.

What does valohai-utils do?

• Generates and updates the valohai.yaml config file based on the source code
• Agnostic input handling (single file, multiple files, zip, tar)
• Parse command-line parameters
• Compress outputs
• Download inputs for local experiments
• A straightforward way to print metrics as Valohai metadata
• Code parity between local vs. cloud

Install the tools

Start by creating a new folder on your local machine, and installing the Valohai tools:

mkdir valohai-tutorial
cd valohai-tutorial

# Install the Valohai command line tools
pip install valohai-cli valohai-utils

Next login to Valohai and link your local folder to a new Valohai project:

vh login
# ... confirm the host and login with your username and password

vh project create
# give the project a name

Next: Run an execution