Deploy to AWS manually

The Compute and Data Layer of Valohai can be deployed to your AWS Account. This enables you to:

  • Use your own EC2 instances to run machine learning jobs.

  • Use your own S3 Buckets for storing training artefacts such as trained models, preprocessed datasets, visualizations, etc.

  • Access databases and data warehouses directly from the workers, which are inside your network.

Valohai doesn’t have direct access to the EC2 instances that execute the machine learning jobs. Instead it communicates with a static EC2 instance in your AWS subscription that’s responsible for storing the job queue, job states, and short-term logs.

Valohai Components

Warning

Before running the template you’ll need the following information from Valohai:

  • valohai_assume_user is the ARN of the user Valohai will use to assume a role in your AWS subscription to manage EC2 instances.

  • queue_address will be assigned for the queue in your subscription.

Configure the IAM roles

The 4 roles listed below are required for a Valohai installation.

  • ValohaiQueueRole will be attached to the Valohai Queue instance, and allows it to fetch the generated password from your AWS Secrets Manager. Access is restricted to secrets that are tagged valohai:1.

  • ValohaiWorkerRole is attached to all autoscaled EC2 instances that are launched for machine learning jobs.

  • ValohaiS3MultipartRole will be used to upload files larger than 5GB.

  • ValohaiMaster is the role that the Valohai service will use to manage autoscaling and EC2 resources. The role is also used to manage the newly provisioned valohai-data-* S3 Bucket.

Create the 4 policies listed below by going to your AWS Console > IAM > Policies.

Warning

Update the following placeholders in ValohaiMaster and ValohaiS3MultipartPolicy before you save the policies:

  • valohai-data-<my-company-name> with your company name (valohai-data-companya).

  • <AWS-ACCOUNT-ID> with your AWS Account ID.

ValohaiQueuePolicy

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
      {
          "Sid": "0",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
              "secretsmanager:GetResourcePolicy",
              "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue",
              "secretsmanager:DescribeSecret",
              "secretsmanager:ListSecretVersionIds"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
              "StringEquals": {
                  "secretsmanager:ResourceTag/valohai": "1"
              }
          }
      },
      {
          "Sid": "1",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "secretsmanager:GetRandomPassword",
          "Resource": "*"
      }
  ]
}

ValohaiWorkerPolicy

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
      {
          "Action": "autoscaling:SetInstanceProtection",
          "Resource": "*",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Sid": "1"
      },
      {
          "Action": "ec2:DescribeInstances",
          "Resource": "*",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Sid": "2"
      }
  ]
}

ValohaiS3MultipartPolicy

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
      {
          "Sid": "MultipartAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
              "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
              "s3:GetBucketLocation",
              "s3:GetObject",
              "s3:ListBucket",
              "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
              "s3:ListBucketVersions",
              "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
              "s3:PutObject"
          ],
          "Resource": [
              "arn:aws:s3:::valohai-data-<my-company-name>",
              "arn:aws:s3:::valohai-data-<my-company-name>/*"
          ]
      }
  ]
}

ValohaiMasterPolicy

{
   "Version" : "2012-10-17",
   "Statement" : [
     {
       "Sid" : "2",
       "Effect" : "Allow",
       "Action" : [
         "ec2:DescribeInstances",
         "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
         "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
         "ec2:DescribeImages",
         "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
         "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
         "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
         "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
         "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions",
         "ec2:CreateTags",
         "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
         "autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities"
       ],
       "Resource" : "*"
     },
     {
       "Sid" : "AllowUpdatingSpotLaunchTemplates",
       "Effect" : "Allow",
       "Action" : [
         "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate",
         "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplateVersion",
         "ec2:ModifyLaunchTemplate",
         "ec2:RunInstances",
         "ec2:RebootInstances",
         "autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup",
         "autoscaling:CreateOrUpdateTags",
         "autoscaling:SetDesiredCapacity",
         "autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup"
       ],
       "Resource" : "*",
       "Condition" : {
         "ForAllValues:StringEquals" : {
           "aws:ResourceTag/valohai" : "1"
         }
       }
     },
     {
       "Sid" : "ServiceLinkedRole",
       "Effect" : "Allow",
       "Action" : "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
       "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/autoscaling.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAutoScaling"
     },
     {
       "Sid" : "4",
       "Effect" : "Allow",
       "Action" : [
         "iam:PassRole",
         "iam:GetRole"
       ],
       "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::<ACCOUNT-ID>:role/ValohaiWorkerRole"
     },
     {
       "Sid" : "0",
       "Effect" : "Allow",
       "Condition" : {
         "StringEquals" : {
           "secretsmanager:ResourceTag/valohai" : "1"
         }
       },
       "Action" : [
         "secretsmanager:GetResourcePolicy",
         "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue",
         "secretsmanager:DescribeSecret",
         "secretsmanager:ListSecretVersionIds"
       ],
       "Resource" : "*"
     },
     {
       "Action" : "secretsmanager:GetRandomPassword",
       "Resource" : "*",
       "Effect" : "Allow",
       "Sid" : "1"
     },
     {
       "Effect" : "Allow",
       "Action" : "s3:*",
       "Resource" : [
         "arn:aws:s3:::valohai-data-<my-company-name>",
         "arn:aws:s3:::valohai-data-<my-company-name>/*"
       ]
     }
   ]
 }

Next create the roles listed below by going to your AWS Console > IAM > Roles.

Name

Use Case

Policy

ValohaiQueueRole

EC2

ValohaiQueuePolicy

ValohaiWorkerRole

EC2

ValohaiWorkerPolicy

ValohaiS3MultipartRole

Another AWS Account.

  • Account ID: <YOUR-AWS-ACCOUNT-ID>

ValohaiS3MultipartPolicy

ValohaiMaster

Another AWS Account

  • Account ID: 905675611115

ValohaiMasterPolicy

Important

Note ValohaiQueueRole and ValohaiWorkerRole need to also have instance profiles They will get automatically created when you create a role through the console.

If you’re creating the resources with the AWS CLI, follow the AWS documentation to learn how to create and attach an instance profile to a role.

Deploying resources

We recommend setting up the Valohai resources in a fresh AWS Account. If you prefer to use an existing account and VPC, you’ll need to adopt the instructions below to your environment.

Reach out to support@valohai.com if you have any questions.

Warning

Before deploying your resources, you’ll need to get the following information from Valohai:

  • valohai_assume_user is the ARN of the user Valohai will use to assume a role in your AWS subscription to manage EC2 instances.

  • queue_address will be assigned for your job queue.

Resource

Name

Details

VPC

valohai-vpc

  • CIDR: 10.0.0.0/16

  • Tag: Key=valohai,Value=1

Subnets

valohai-subnet-x

  • Create one subnet per zone in your AWS Region

  • Example CIDR ranges:

    • valohai-subnet-1, 10.0.0.0/20, Availability Zone: a

    • valohai-subnet-2, 10.0.16.0/20, Availability Zone: b

    • valohai-subnet-3, 10.0.32.0/20, Availability Zone: c

    • valohai-subnet-4, 10.0.48.0/20, Availability Zone: d

  • Tag: Key=valohai,Value=1

Internet Gateway

valohai-igw

  • Attach the gateway to valohai-vpc

  • Tag: Key=valohai,Value=1

Routing Table

Rename the default route table of valohai-vpc to valohai-rt

  • Edit Routes:

    • 10.0.0.0/16 => local

    • 0.0.0.0/0 => <ID of valohai-igw>

  • Tag: Key=valohai,Value=1

Security Group

valohai-sg-workers

  • Inbound Rules

  • Outbound Rules

    • Keep default settings. All outbound traffic is allowed.

  • Tag: Key=valohai,Value=1

Security Group

valohai-sg-queue

  • Inbound Rules

    • Port 80 on 0.0.0.0/0 for ACME tooling and LetsEncrypt challenge

    • Port 63790 on 34.248.245.191/32 for Redis over SSL from app.valohai.com

    • Port 63790 on <ID of valohai-sg-workers> for Redis over SSL from Valohai workers

  • Outbound Rules

    • Keep default settings. All outbound traffic is allowed.

  • Tag: Key=valohai,Value=1

Secrets Manager Secret

ValohaiRedisSecret

  • Type: “Other type of secrets”

  • Plaintext secret: Generate a random password, that includes lowercase and capital letters and numbers.

  • Tag: Key=valohai,Value=1

  • Automatic rotation: Keep the default setting (Disable automatic rotation)

Elastic IP

valohai-ip-queue

  • Allocate a new Elastic IP adddress from the Amazon’s pool of IPv4 addresses

  • Tag: Key=valohai,Value=1

EC2 Instance

valohai-sg-queue

IMPORTANT: Replace the <queue_address> with the correct value!

  • OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  • Machine type: t3.medium (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM)

  • Instance Details:

    • VPC: valohai-vpc

    • IAM role: ValohaiQueueRole

    • User data:

      #!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install awscli -y
export REGION=`curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/region/`
export PASSWORD=`aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id ValohaiRedisSecret --region $REGION | sed -n 's|.*"SecretString": *"\([^"]*\)".*|\1|p'`
export QUEUE=<queue_address>
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/valohai/worker-queue/main/host/setup.sh | sudo QUEUE_ADDRESS=$QUEUE REDIS_PASSWORD=$PASSWORD bash
unset PASSWORD

  • Storage:

    • Standard persistent disk: 16GB

  • Tag: Key=valohai,Value=1

  • Security Group: valohai-sg-queue

  • Key Pair: Generate a new Key Pair for Valohai

  • After the instance has been creating

S3 Bucket

valohai-data-<my-company-name>

  • Turn on Block all public access

  • Tag: Key=valohai,Value=1

  • After you’ve created the bucket go to the bucket Permissions tab and set the CORS policy as below:

     [
  {
      "AllowedHeaders": ["Authorization"],
      "AllowedMethods": ["GET"],
      "AllowedOrigins": ["*"],
      "ExposeHeaders": [],
      "MaxAgeSeconds": 3000
  },
  {
      "AllowedHeaders": ["Authorization"],
      "AllowedMethods": ["POST"],
      "AllowedOrigins": ["https://app.valohai.com"],
      "ExposeHeaders": [],
      "MaxAgeSeconds": 3000
  }
]

Next steps

You’ll need to share the ARN of the ValohaiMaster Role with your Valohai contact, so they can finish the setup on app.valohai.com and enable your organization’s environments on the platform.