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RunPod10mo ago
Yannik

best practice to terminate pods on job completion

I have a one time job I want to run as a GPU pod. Currently the container gets restarted as soon as the job finishes. What's the best way to terminate the pod after completion?
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ashleyk
ashleyk10mo ago
You can use runpodctl to terminate the pod.
runpodctl remove pod
runpodctl remove pod
https://github.com/runpod/runpodctl
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Yannik
YannikOP10mo ago
Thanks for the pointer. You mean I should install it in the container and add my credentials to it, and then terminate as soon as the job is done?
ashleyk
ashleyk10mo ago
You may also want to consider using serverless instead of GPU cloud.
Yannik
YannikOP10mo ago
I don't have a large number of jobs (~20) each running for ~1h. Does that still make sense?
justin
justin10mo ago
Yeah, I think this is fine. Whatever you have running on serverless, is essentially what could be running on GPU Cloud, except that you are just calling a handler.py instead that calls the runpod.start() method. can check their documentation. I should really improve this lol, but it should give you a decent pseudo example: https://discord.com/channels/912829806415085598/1194695853026328626 I also run jobs every so often like transcriptions on runpod, but I dont want to be spinning up a pod every time So I just ping it to a serverless function to queue up and wait for the responses to finish GPU Cloud the difference is usually u start up some openssh server and jupyter lab, but the environment is the same setup if it works in GPU Cloud, will work in serverless (most of the time with some exceptions)
Yannik
YannikOP10mo ago
Okay awesome, thank you for the link to the how to thread. I will give it a look
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