v0.6.1: July 2018 Release

New features:

1. The 'paictl' tool: Introducing paictl, the deployment/management tool with the functionalities of image building, service start/stop, k8s bootup/clean, and configuration generation.
2. Single-box deployment: Support single-box deployment for evaluation purpose.
3. New UI for user management: Now the console for administrators to manage PAI users has got a new UI.
4. Documentation: Significant changes on documents -- more comprehensive, more structured, and easier to follow.

Improvements:

1. Faster loading of the job list UI: Now the page gets 5x faster than before when loading its content.

Various bug fixes: (Omitted here)

Known issues:

• #827 Deploy PAI master and worker on the same node may lead to resource competition.
• #813 Still in investigation. Install PAI on some old kernel may fail.
• #713 Yarn may not use all the resource shown on the PAI dashboard, due to configuration issues.

Example of single-box deployment with quick start:

• Step 1. Prepare file ~/quick-start.yaml:

ssh-username: pai-admin
ssh-password: ****
machines:
  - 10.240.0.10

• Step 2. Go to <pai-codebase>/pai-deployment folder and then run following commands one by one:

python paictl.py cluster configuration-generation -i ~/quick-start.yaml -o ~/.pai/config
python paictl.py cluster k8s-bootup -p ~/.pai/config
python paictl.py service start -p ~/.pai/config

• Step 3. Open a web browser and then go to http://10.240.0.10 to see PAI web portal: