Ah okay, that is a very easy solution to the problem. I wasn’t aware that you could build and run pipelines like that, and I especially wasn’t aware that you could return values from a pipeline and have them accessible to a script in the way that you have given.

Does this require you run the pipeline locally (I see you have set default execution queue) or do any other specific set-up?

I will give it a go tomorrow and report back – the only issue I foresee will be if doing this somehow inc...

Thanks, yes I am familiar with all of the above.

We want to validate the entire pipeline . I am not talking about using a ClearML Pipeline as the validator (which is the case in your examples).

Here is some further detail that will hopefully make things more obvious:

• The pipeline is a series of steps which creates a feature store – in fact, you might even call it a feature pipeline!
• Each pipeline step takes responsibility for a different bit of feature engineering.
• We want to val...

The Pipeline is defined using PipelineDecorators, so currently to “build and run” it would just involve running the script it is defined in (which enqueues it and runs it etc).

This is not ideal, as I need to access the Task ID and the only methods I can see are for use within the Task/Pipeline ( Task.current_task and PipelineDecorator.get_current_pipeline )

The reason I want to check completion etc outside the Pipeline Task is that I want to run data validation etc once when the pipe...

The issue here is I don’t have the pipeline ID as it is a new version of the pipeline - i.e. the code has been updated, I want to run the updated pipeline (for the first time), get its ID, and then analyse the run/perform updates to tags (for example)

Thanks

Yep, that’s it. Obviously would be nice to not have to go via the shell but that’s by the by (edit: I don’t know of a way to build or run a new version of a pipeline without going via the shell, so this isn’t a big deal).

Yep, would be happy to run locally, but want to automate this so does running locally help with getting the pipeline run ID (programmatically)?

Thanks, I’ll check out those GitHub Actions examples but as you say, it’s the “template” step that is the key bit for this particular application.

the pipeline from tasks serializes itself to a configuration object that you can edit/create externally

I think if it has to come down to fiddling with lower-level objects, I’ll hold off for now and wait until something a bit more user-friendly comes along. Depends on how easy this is to work with.

This is something that we do need if we a...

Basically, for a bit more context, this is part of an effort to incorporate ClearML Pipelines in a CI/CD framework. Changes to the pipeline script create_pipeline_a.py that are pushed to a GitHub master branch would trigger the build and testing of the pipeline.

And I’d rather the testing/validation etc lived outside of the ClearML Pipeline itself, as stated earlier – and that’s what your pseudo code allows, so if it’s possible that would be great. 🙂

Sorry, I think something’s got lost in translation here, but thanks for the explanation.

Hopefully this is clearer:

• Say we have a new ClearML pipeline as code on a new commit in our repo.
• We want to build and run this new pipeline and have it available on the ClearML Server.
• We want to run a suite of tests that validate/verify/etc the performance of this entire ClearML Pipeline, e.g. by having it run on a set of predefined inputs and checking the various artifacts that were creat...

Sorry, I don’t understand how this helps with validating the pipeline run.
Where would the validation code sit?
And the ClearML Pipeline run needs to be available on the ClearML Server (at least as a draft) so that it can be marked as in-production and cloned in the future

Is there a rule whereby only python native datatypes can be used as the “outer” variable?

I have a dict of numpy np.array s elsewhere in my code and that works fine with caching.

You may indeed 😊 thanks!

I am using the PipelineDecorator form of the pipeline and I am passing arguments as function arguments to the pipeline components

Do notice this will only work for pipelines from Tasks, is this a good fit for you?

The issue with this is that we would then presumably have to run/“build” each of the Tasks (pipeline steps) separately to put them on the ClearML server and then get their Task ID’s in order to even write the code for the Pipeline, which increases the complexity of any automated CI/CD flow. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Essentially, I think the key thing here is we want to be able to build the entire Pipe...

There are no experiments in the project, let alone the pipeline; they’ve all been archived

And the app is presumably crashed because I can’t click the “Close” button – it’s (the whole page) totally unresponsive and I have to refresh the page, at which point the pipeline still exists (ie was not deleted).

I have left it on the deletion screen (screenshot) for 20-30 mins at one point and it didn’t do anything, so this seems to be a bug

I’m just the messenger here, didn’t set up the web app...

But yeah, more generally having a different UI for different data types could be useful (e.g. categorical variables, integers, decimals, etc), just not a direct concern for me at this moment

e.g. pseudo for illustration only
` def get_list(dataset_id):
from clearml import Dataset
ds= Dataset.get(dataset_id=dataset_id)
ds_dir=ds.get_local_copy()
etc...
return list_of_objs # one for each file, for example

def pipeline(dataset_id):
list_of_obj = get_list(dataset_id)
list_of_results = []
for obj in list_of_obj:
list_of_results.append(step(obj))
combine(list_of_results) `One benefit is being able to make use of the Pipeline caching so if ne...

I have already tested that the for loop does work, including caching, when spinning out multiple Tasks.

As I say, the issue is grouping the results of the tasks into a list and passing them into another step

I get an error about incorrect Task ID’s – in the above pseudo code it would be the ID of the step Task that was displayed in the error

So the DAG is getting confused on bringing the results of the Tasks together

Producing it now — thanks for your help, won’t be a few mins

(including caching, even if the number of elements in the list of vals changes)

For reference, this works as expected:

The return objects were stored to S3 but PipelineDecorator.upload_artifact still uploaded to the file server. Not sure what was up with that but as explained in my next comment it did work when I tried again.

It also seems that PipelineDecorator.upload_artifact is not compatible with caching, sadly, but that is another issue for another thread that I will be starting on Monday.

Have a good weekend

Ahh that’s great, thank you.

And then I could use storage manager or whatever to get the files. Perfect

Hmm. Okay. Thanks

The Dataset object itself is not being passed around. The point of showing you that was to say that the Dataset may change and therefore the number of objects (loaded from the Dataset, eg a number of pandas DataFrames that were CSV’s in the dataset) could change

I basically just mean having a date input like you would in excel where it brings up a calendar and a clock if it’s time – and defaults to “now”

from tempfile import mkdtemp new_folder = with_feature.get_mutable_local_copy(mkdtemp())It’s this line that causes the issue