Bring Your Own Containers to Deadline Cloud! Blender and Isaac Sim Welcome
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AWS What's New
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This one is great news if you do rendering or physics simulation!
What was announced?
According to AWS What's New, AWS Deadline Cloud now supports running jobs with Docker containers from Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Linux-based service-managed fleets.
Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service for compute-intensive workloads such as visual effects, animation, product design, simulation, and gaming.
The story so far
Even if your team already packages software into container images, you couldn't bring those images straight into Deadline Cloud. With this update, you can bring your own software containers directly to the service using Docker-enabled fleets.
What changes
- If your software is already containerized, you can point Deadline Cloud at the images directly
- Any container-deployed software is a candidate, from rendering tools like Blender to physical AI workloads such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim and MuJoCo
- Job templates don't need container commands or image references
The same job bundles you run locally with the Open Job Description CLI can be submitted to Deadline Cloud with no changes.
Dive Deep
- Service-managed fleets automatically deploy the containerized software on every worker instance at scale
- Containers are integrated with fleets and queues
- Applies to Linux-based service-managed fleets
- Available in all AWS Regions where Deadline Cloud is offered
See the user guide and developer guide for how to get started.
Wrap-up
- ECS Docker containers work on Linux service-managed fleets
- Use your existing container images as they are
- Submit local job bundles without changes
This is a good fit for teams with containerized render or simulation environments!
