Configure Clusters

Adding custom clusters

Bring your own clusters

You can easily register your own custom cluster to VESSL whether it's on-premise, on-cloud or a combination of the two.

Adding custom cluster to VESSL

1. Install Helm

VESSL uses Helm, the package manager of Kubernetes. Begin by installing Helm.

Script

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3 | bash

Homebrew

2. Helm Install Kubernetes resources

To add Kubernetes cluster to VESSL, you should first create the followings in the cluster:

• A service account that has all the permissions in a namespace

• VESSL cluster agent

You can see the preview of result on VESSL's GitHub repository. Run the following commands to create the required resources in your cluster. You can find your agent access token on the Workspace → Settings → Cluster → New Cluster page. VESSL's cluster agent will automatically add your Kubernetes cluster.

helm repo add vessl https://vessl-ai.github.io/cluster-resources/helm-chart
helm repo update
helm install vessl vessl/cluster-resources \
  --set namespace=vessl \
  --create-namespace \
  --set agent.accessToken=YOUR_AGENT_ACCESS_TOKEN

For those who are registering an on-premise cluster and want to prevent unprivileged access to GPUs in Kubernetes, we added volumeListStrategy as Helm values. You can set the values using the following script.

helm install vessl vessl/cluster-resources \
  --set namespace=vessl \
  --create-namespace \
  --set agent.accessToken=YOUR_AGENT_ACCESS_TOKEN \
  --set nvidiaDevicePlugin.deviceListStrategy=volume-mounts

You can also find this instruction on VESSL's Web Console.