Hi FancyWhale93
pipe.start() should actually stop the local pipeline logic execution and fire it on the "services queue".
The idea is that you can launch the pipeline locally, but the actual execution of the entire logic is remote.
You can have the pipeline running locally if you call pipe.start_locally or also run the steps locally (as sub processes) with pipe.start_locally(run_pipeline_steps_locally=False)
BTW: based on your example, a more intuitive code might be the pipeline decorator example, you can see it here: https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/blob/master/examples/pipeline/pipeline_from_decorator.py