Chainer Vagrant EC2 Config

This is a configuration file for Vagrant to make Chainer development environment on Amazon EC2.

Requirement

• Vagrant
  • vagrant-aws
  • vagrant-fabric
• fabric

Setup

First, install Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/) and set path.

Install the two Vagrant plugins.

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-fabric

Add dummy box.

$ vagrant box add dummy https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws/raw/master/dummy.box

Install fabric.

$ pip install fabric

Make EC2 account, get an access key, make a secruty group and make a private key. Rename config.yml.sample to config.yml and edit it with your information.

Usage

vagrant up makes a GPU instance on your EC2 account.

$ vagrant up

Setups the instance with vagrant provision. It installs tools and libraries which are required to build Chainer, and downloads sources of Chainer.

$ vagrant provision

Now, run ssh and login the instance.

$ vagrant ssh

You can find chainer directory containing source files of Chainer.