IBM Code Engine allows you to run your application, job or container on a managed serverless platform. Auto-scale workloads and only pay for the resources you consume.
- Install IBM Cloud backend dependencies:
python3 -m pip install lithops[ibm]
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If you don't have an IAM API key created, navigate to the IBM IAM dashboard.
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Click
Create an IBM Cloud API Key
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Copy the generated IAM API key (You can only see the key the first time you create it, so make sure to copy it).
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Navigate to the resource groups dashboard, and copy the desired resource group ID.
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Edit your lithops config and add the following keys:
lithops: backend: code_engine ibm: iam_api_key: <IAM_API_KEY> region: <REGION> resource_group_id: <RESOURCE_GROUP_ID>
Group | Key | Default | Mandatory | Additional info |
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ibm | iam_api_key | yes | IBM Cloud IAM API key to authenticate against IBM services. Obtain the key here | |
ibm | region | yes | IBM Region. One of: eu-gb , eu-de , us-south , us-east , br-sao , ca-tor , jp-tok , jp-osa , au-syd |
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ibm | resource_group_id | yes | Resource group id from your IBM Cloud account. Get it from here |
Group | Key | Default | Mandatory | Additional info |
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code_engine | project_name | no | Project name that already exists in Code Engine. If not provided lithops will automatically create a new project | |
code_engine | namespace | no | Alternatively to project_name , you can provide namespace . Get it from you code engine k8s config file. |
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code_engine | region | no | Cluster region. One of: eu-gb , eu-de , us-south , us-east , br-sao , ca-tor , jp-tok , jp-osa , au-syd . Lithops will use the region set under the ibm section if it is not set here |
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code_engine | docker_server | docker.io | no | Container registry URL |
code_engine | docker_user | no | Container registry user name | |
code_engine | docker_password | no | Container registry password/token. In case of Docker hub, login to your docker hub account and generate a new access token here | |
code_engine | max_workers | 1000 | no | Max number of workers per FunctionExecutor() |
code_engine | worker_processes | 1 | no | Number of Lithops processes within a given worker. This can be used to parallelize function activations within a worker. It is recommendable to set this value to the same number of CPUs of the container. |
code_engine | runtime | no | Docker image name. | |
code_engine | runtime_cpu | 0.125 | no | CPU limit. Default 0.125vCPU. See valid combinations |
code_engine | runtime_memory | 256 | no | Memory limit in MB. Default 256Mi. See valid combinations |
code_engine | runtime_timeout | 600 | no | Runtime timeout in seconds. Default 600 seconds |
code_engine | connection_retries | no | If specified, number of job invoke retries in case of connection failure with error code 500 | |
code_engine | runtime_include_function | False | no | If set to true, Lithops will automatically build a new runtime, including the function's code, instead of transferring it through the storage backend at invocation time. This is useful when the function's code size is large (in the order of 10s of MB) and the code does not change frequently |
If a pre-built runtime is not provided, Lithops will automatically build the default runtime the first time you run a script. For this task it uses the docker command installed locally in your machine. To make this working, you need:
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Login to your container registry account:
docker login
If you need to create a runtime with custom system packages and libraries, please follow Building and managing Lithops runtimes to run the functions
To configure Lithops to access a private repository in your docker hub account, you need to extend the Code Engine config and add the following keys:
code_engine:
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docker_server : docker.io
docker_user : <container registry username>
docker_password : <container registry access TOKEN>
To configure Lithops to access to a private repository in your IBM Container Registry, you need to extend the Code Engine config and add the following keys:
code_engine:
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docker_server : us.icr.io # Change-me if you have the CR in another region
docker_user : iamapikey
docker_password : <IBM IAM API KEY>
docker_namespace : <namespace> # namespace name from https://cloud.ibm.com/registry/namespaces
Once you have your compute and storage backends configured, you can run a hello world function with:
lithops hello -b code_engine -s ibm_cos
You can view the function executions logs in your local machine using the lithops client:
lithops logs poll