mostly out of curiosity, what is the motivation behind introducing this as an environment variable knob rather then a flag with some default in Task.init?
DepressedChimpanzee34 we will deprecate the demo server (not exactly sure when) as we have the free community one that gives better service and stores the data. It was originally set for easy on-boarding and testing, but I think that now the user experience might be better with using the community free tier.
Make sense ? btw: what do you think is a better newcomer experience?
WackyRabbit7 basically starting v1.1 if you are running code without any configuration file, you will get an error (in contrast to previous versions where it defaulted to the demo-server)
AgitatedDove14 , mostly out of curiosity, what is the motivation behind introducing this as an environment variable knob rather then a flag with some default in Task.init?
maybe worth updating the main Readme.md in the github.. if someone try to follow the instructions there it breaks
Hmm I thought we already did, Yes you are absolutely correct, I'll make sure we do
Cool, didn't know it was disabled. This exact reason was why I created a wrapper over ClearML for my use so that people don't ever accidentally talk to demo server
AgitatedDove14 , well.. having the demo server by default lowers the effort threshold for trying ClearML and getting convinced it can deliver what it promises, and maybe test some simple custom use cases. I don't know what are the behind the scenes considerations in terms of costs of keeping the demo server running, but even having a leaner version where you limit the duration in which the experiment records are deleted after a week or few days sounds useful to me
AgitatedDove14 ,maybe worth updating the main Readme.md in the github.. if someone try to follow the instructions there it breaks
Hey, AFAIK, SDK version 1.1.0 disabled the demo server by default (still accessible by setting an envvar).
https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/releases/tag/1.1.0
Is this still an issue even in this version?
Yes I already learned about it from this thread 🙂
well.. having the demo server by default lowers the effort threshold for trying ClearML and getting convinced it can deliver what it promises, and maybe test some simple custom use cases. I
This was exactly what we thought when we set it up in the first place 🙂
(I can't imagine the cost is an issue, probably maintenance/upgrades ...)
There is still support for the demo server, you just need to set the env key:CLEARML_NO_DEFAULT_SERVER=0 python ...