Example

Create a cluster

When you run the following example script, with the given inputs stored in your environment, you create a cluster. The cluster configuration is created as a Python data type based on the cluster configuration documentation.

import os
import pprint
import pcluster.lib as pc
pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter()

HEAD_NODE_SUBNET = os.environ["HEAD_NODE_SUBNET"]
COMPUTE_NODE_SUBNET = os.environ["HEAD_NODE_SUBNET"]
KEY_NAME = os.environ["KEY_NAME"]
CONFIG = {'Image': {'Os': 'alinux2'},
          'HeadNode': {'InstanceType': 't2.large',
                       'Networking': {'SubnetId': HEAD_NODE_SUBNET},
                       'Ssh': {'KeyName': KEY_NAME}},

          'Scheduling': {'Scheduler': 'slurm',
                         'SlurmQueues':
                         [{'Name': 'queue0',
                           'ComputeResources':
                           [{'Name': 'queue0-i0', 'InstanceType': 't2.micro',
                             'MinCount': 0, 'MaxCount': 10}],
                           'Networking': {'SubnetIds': [COMPUTE_NODE_SUBNET]}}]}}


pp.pprint(pc.create_cluster(cluster_name="mycluster", cluster_configuration=CONFIG))

Output:

{'cluster': {'cloudformationStackArn': 'arn:aws:cloudformation:us-east-2:123456789012:stack/mycluster/00000000-aaaa-1111-999-000000000000',
             'cloudformationStackStatus': 'CREATE_IN_PROGRESS',
             'clusterName': 'mycluster',
             'clusterStatus': 'CREATE_IN_PROGRESS',
             'region': 'us-east-2',
             'scheduler': {'type': 'slurm'},
             'version': '3.7.0'}}