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Deploy a starter Deadline Cloud farm with CloudFormation - Deadline Cloud

Deploy a starter Deadline Cloud farm with CloudFormation

The starter_farm CloudFormation template deploys a Deadline Cloud farm that you can use to run jobs that render images, reconstruct 3D scenes, or transform data. The deployed farm includes:

  • One or more service-managed fleets that you select during deployment.

  • A production queue with conda virtual environments for the applications that jobs need.

  • A package build queue that you can use to build conda packages.

  • Two conda channels by default: a private channel on an Amazon S3 bucket you provide and the deadline-cloud channel, which provides applications such as Blender, Houdini, Maya, and Nuke.

To deploy the template, you need an Amazon S3 bucket to hold job attachments and the conda channel, and a Deadline Cloud monitor with IAM Identity Center to view and manage jobs.

From the CloudFormation console, choose Create Stack, upload deadline-cloud-starter-farm-template.yaml, enter a stack name and the Amazon S3 bucket name, and proceed through stack creation. To use the conda-forge channel, set the ProdCondaChannels parameter to deadline-cloud conda-forge.