Installation: Self-Hosted

Install a self-hosted Burla instance inside your private cloud.

Self-Hosted Burla is currently exclusive to Google Cloud.

We fully intend to support AWS, Azure, and on-prem deployments, but don't yet. We offer fully-managed Burla deployments for those not on GCP.

Quick version:

• Simply run pip install burla then run burla install

• If you're missing anything the command will tell you what to do!

Instructions:

Ensure gcloud is setup and installed: If you haven't, install the gcloud CLI, and login using application-default credentials. Also, ensure gcloud is pointing at the project you wish to install Burla inside:

• To view your current gcloud project run: gcloud config get project

• To change your current gcloud project run: gcloud config set project <NEW-PROJECT-ID>

Then install Burla with:

1. pip install burla

2. burla install

That's it!

Burla install requires that your user account have permission to run the following commands:

• gcloud services enable ...

• gcloud compute firewall-rules create ...

• gcloud secrets create ...

• gcloud firestore databases create ...

• gcloud run deploy ...

If you're missing any permissions, burla install will tell you which ones you need! To see the exact required IAM permissions, check out the CLI documentation for burla install.

Next steps:

1. Run burla dashboard to login to your new cluster dashboard. You will need to login using the same email you used to authenticate gcloud. This ensures that only you the installer are allowed to access your new self-hosted Burla instance. To add other users, simpy add their email to the list of authorized users in the settings tab.

2. Hit the ⏻ Start button in your dashboard to turn the cluster on. By default this will start one 4-CPU node. If inactive for >5 minutes this node will shut itself off.

3. Run the example!

from burla import remote_parallel_map

def my_function(my_input):
    print("I'm running on remote computer in the cloud!")
    
remote_parallel_map(my_function, [1, 2, 3])

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