Class CustomJob (1.62.0) 

CustomJob(
    display_name: str,
    worker_pool_specs: typing.Union[
        typing.List[typing.Dict],
        typing.List[google.cloud.aiplatform_v1.types.custom_job.WorkerPoolSpec],
    ],
    base_output_dir: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    project: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    location: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    credentials: typing.Optional[google.auth.credentials.Credentials] = None,
    labels: typing.Optional[typing.Dict[str, str]] = None,
    encryption_spec_key_name: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    staging_bucket: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    persistent_resource_id: typing.Optional[str] = None,
)

Vertex AI Custom Job.

Properties

create_time

Time this resource was created.

display_name

Display name of this resource.

encryption_spec

Customer-managed encryption key options for this Vertex AI resource.

If this is set, then all resources created by this Vertex AI resource will be encrypted with the provided encryption key.

end_time

Time when the Job resource entered the JOB_STATE_SUCCEEDED, JOB_STATE_FAILED, or JOB_STATE_CANCELLED state.

error

Detailed error info for this Job resource. Only populated when the Job's state is JOB_STATE_FAILED or JOB_STATE_CANCELLED.

gca_resource

The underlying resource proto representation.

labels

User-defined labels containing metadata about this resource.

Read more about labels at https://goo.gl/xmQnxf

name

Name of this resource.

network

The full name of the Google Compute Engine network to which this CustomJob should be peered.

Takes the format projects/{project}/global/networks/{network}. Where {project} is a project number, as in 12345, and {network} is a network name.

Private services access must already be configured for the network. If left unspecified, the CustomJob is not peered with any network.

preview

Exposes features available in preview for this class.

resource_name

Full qualified resource name.

start_time

Time when the Job resource entered the JOB_STATE_RUNNING for the first time.

state

Fetch Job again and return the current JobState.

Returns
Type Description
state (job_state.JobState) Enum that describes the state of a Vertex AI job.

update_time

Time this resource was last updated.

web_access_uris

Fetch the runnable job again and return the latest web access uris.

Returns
Type Description
(Dict[str, Union[str, Dict[str, str]]]) Web access uris of the runnable job.

Methods

CustomJob

CustomJob(
    display_name: str,
    worker_pool_specs: typing.Union[
        typing.List[typing.Dict],
        typing.List[google.cloud.aiplatform_v1.types.custom_job.WorkerPoolSpec],
    ],
    base_output_dir: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    project: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    location: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    credentials: typing.Optional[google.auth.credentials.Credentials] = None,
    labels: typing.Optional[typing.Dict[str, str]] = None,
    encryption_spec_key_name: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    staging_bucket: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    persistent_resource_id: typing.Optional[str] = None,
)

Constructs a Custom Job with Worker Pool Specs.

Example usage:
worker_pool_specs = [
        {
            "machine_spec": {
                "machine_type": "n1-standard-4",
                "accelerator_type": "NVIDIA_TESLA_K80",
                "accelerator_count": 1,
            },
            "replica_count": 1,
            "container_spec": {
                "image_uri": container_image_uri,
                "command": [],
                "args": [],
            },
        }
    ]

my_job = aiplatform.CustomJob(
    display_name='my_job',
    worker_pool_specs=worker_pool_specs,
    labels={'my_key': 'my_value'},
)

my_job.run()

For more information on configuring worker pool specs please visit: https://cloud.google.com/ai-platform-unified/docs/training/create-custom-job

Parameters
Name Description
display_name str

Required. The user-defined name of the HyperparameterTuningJob. The name can be up to 128 characters long and can be consist of any UTF-8 characters.
worker_pool_specs Union[List[Dict], List[aiplatform.gapic.WorkerPoolSpec]]

Required. The spec of the worker pools including machine type and Docker image. Can provided as a list of dictionaries or list of WorkerPoolSpec proto messages.
base_output_dir str

Optional. GCS output directory of job. If not provided a timestamped directory in the staging directory will be used.
project str

Optional.Project to run the custom job in. Overrides project set in aiplatform.init.
location str

Optional.Location to run the custom job in. Overrides location set in aiplatform.init.
credentials auth_credentials.Credentials

Optional.Custom credentials to use to run call custom job service. Overrides credentials set in aiplatform.init.
labels Dict[str, str]

Optional. The labels with user-defined metadata to organize CustomJobs. Label keys and values can be no longer than 64 characters (Unicode codepoints), can only contain lowercase letters, numeric characters, underscores and dashes. International characters are allowed. See https://goo.gl/xmQnxf for more information and examples of labels.
encryption_spec_key_name str

Optional.Customer-managed encryption key name for a CustomJob. If this is set, then all resources created by the CustomJob will be encrypted with the provided encryption key.
staging_bucket str

Optional. Bucket for produced custom job artifacts. Overrides staging_bucket set in aiplatform.init.
persistent_resource_id str

Optional. The ID of the PersistentResource in the same Project and Location. If this is specified, the job will be run on existing machines held by the PersistentResource instead of on-demand short-live machines. The network and CMEK configs on the job should be consistent with those on the PersistentResource, otherwise, the job will be rejected.
Exceptions
Type Description
RuntimeError If staging bucket was not set using aiplatform.init and a staging bucket was not passed in.

cancel

cancel() -> None

Cancels this Job.

Success of cancellation is not guaranteed. Use Job.state property to verify if cancellation was successful.

delete

delete(sync: bool = True) -> None

Deletes this Vertex AI resource. WARNING: This deletion is permanent.

Parameter
Name Description
sync bool

Whether to execute this deletion synchronously. If False, this method will be executed in concurrent Future and any downstream object will be immediately returned and synced when the Future has completed.

done

done() -> bool

Method indicating whether a job has completed.

from_local_script

from_local_script(
    display_name: str,
    script_path: str,
    container_uri: str,
    enable_autolog: bool = False,
    args: typing.Optional[typing.Sequence[str]] = None,
    requirements: typing.Optional[typing.Sequence[str]] = None,
    environment_variables: typing.Optional[typing.Dict[str, str]] = None,
    replica_count: int = 1,
    machine_type: str = "n1-standard-4",
    accelerator_type: str = "ACCELERATOR_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED",
    accelerator_count: int = 0,
    boot_disk_type: str = "pd-ssd",
    boot_disk_size_gb: int = 100,
    reduction_server_replica_count: int = 0,
    reduction_server_machine_type: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    reduction_server_container_uri: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    base_output_dir: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    project: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    location: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    credentials: typing.Optional[google.auth.credentials.Credentials] = None,
    labels: typing.Optional[typing.Dict[str, str]] = None,
    encryption_spec_key_name: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    staging_bucket: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    persistent_resource_id: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    tpu_topology: typing.Optional[str] = None,
) -> google.cloud.aiplatform.jobs.CustomJob

Configures a custom job from a local script.

Example usage:

job = aiplatform.CustomJob.from_local_script(
    display_name="my-custom-job",
    script_path="training_script.py",
    container_uri="gcr.io/cloud-aiplatform/training/tf-cpu.2-2:latest",
    requirements=["gcsfs==0.7.1"],
    replica_count=1,
    args=['--dataset', 'gs://my-bucket/my-dataset',
    '--model_output_uri', 'gs://my-bucket/model']
    labels={'my_key': 'my_value'},
)

job.run()
Parameters
Name Description
display_name str

Required. The user-defined name of this CustomJob.
script_path str

Required. Local path to training script.
container_uri str

Required. Uri of the training container image to use for custom job. Support images in Artifact Registry, Container Registry, or Docker Hub. Vertex AI provides a wide range of executor images with pre-installed packages to meet users' various use cases. See the list of pre-built containers for training https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/training/pre-built-containers. If not using image from this list, please make sure python3 and pip3 are installed in your container.
enable_autolog bool

Optional. If True, the Vertex Experiments autologging feature will be enabled in the CustomJob. Note that this will wrap your training script with some autologging-related code.
args Optional[Sequence[str]]

Optional. Command line arguments to be passed to the Python task.
requirements Sequence[str]

Optional. List of python packages dependencies of script.
environment_variables Dict[str, str]

Optional. Environment variables to be passed to the container. Should be a dictionary where keys are environment variable names and values are environment variable values for those names. At most 10 environment variables can be specified. The Name of the environment variable must be unique. environment_variables = { 'MY_KEY': 'MY_VALUE' }
replica_count int

Optional. The number of worker replicas. If replica count = 1 then one chief replica will be provisioned. If replica_count > 1 the remainder will be provisioned as a worker replica pool.
machine_type str

Optional. The type of machine to use for training.
accelerator_type str

Optional. Hardware accelerator type. One of ACCELERATOR_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED, NVIDIA_TESLA_K80, NVIDIA_TESLA_P100, NVIDIA_TESLA_V100, NVIDIA_TESLA_P4, NVIDIA_TESLA_T4
accelerator_count int

Optional. The number of accelerators to attach to a worker replica.
boot_disk_type str

Optional. Type of the boot disk, default is pd-ssd. Valid values: pd-ssd (Persistent Disk Solid State Drive) or pd-standard (Persistent Disk Hard Disk Drive).
boot_disk_size_gb int

Optional. Size in GB of the boot disk, default is 100GB. boot disk size must be within the range of [100, 64000].
reduction_server_replica_count int

The number of reduction server replicas, default is 0.
reduction_server_machine_type str

Optional. The type of machine to use for reduction server.
reduction_server_container_uri str

Optional. The Uri of the reduction server container image. See details: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/training/distributed-training#reduce_training_time_with_reduction_server
base_output_dir str

Optional. GCS output directory of job. If not provided a timestamped directory in the staging directory will be used.
project str

Optional. Project to run the custom job in. Overrides project set in aiplatform.init.
location str

Optional. Location to run the custom job in. Overrides location set in aiplatform.init.
credentials auth_credentials.Credentials

Optional. Custom credentials to use to run call custom job service. Overrides credentials set in aiplatform.init.
labels Dict[str, str]

Optional. The labels with user-defined metadata to organize CustomJobs. Label keys and values can be no longer than 64 characters (Unicode codepoints), can only contain lowercase letters, numeric characters, underscores and dashes. International characters are allowed. See https://goo.gl/xmQnxf for more information and examples of labels.
encryption_spec_key_name str

Optional. Customer-managed encryption key name for a CustomJob. If this is set, then all resources created by the CustomJob will be encrypted with the provided encryption key.
staging_bucket str

Optional. Bucket for produced custom job artifacts. Overrides staging_bucket set in aiplatform.init.
persistent_resource_id str

Optional. The ID of the PersistentResource in the same Project and Location. If this is specified, the job will be run on existing machines held by the PersistentResource instead of on-demand short-live machines. The network, CMEK, and node pool configs on the job should be consistent with those on the PersistentResource, otherwise, the job will be rejected.
tpu_topology str

Optional. Specifies the tpu topology to be used for TPU training job. This field is required for TPU v5 versions. For details on the TPU topology, refer to https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/v5e#tpu-v5e-config. The topology must be a supported value for the TPU machine type.
Exceptions
Type Description
RuntimeError If staging bucket was not set using aiplatform.init and a staging bucket was not passed in.

get

get(
    resource_name: str,
    project: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    location: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    credentials: typing.Optional[google.auth.credentials.Credentials] = None,
) -> google.cloud.aiplatform.jobs._RunnableJob

Get a Vertex AI Job for the given resource_name.

Parameters
Name Description
resource_name str

Required. A fully-qualified resource name or ID.
project str

Optional. project to retrieve dataset from. If not set, project set in aiplatform.init will be used.
location str

Optional. location to retrieve dataset from. If not set, location set in aiplatform.init will be used.
credentials auth_credentials.Credentials

Custom credentials to use to upload this model. Overrides credentials set in aiplatform.init.

list

list(
    filter: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    order_by: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    project: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    location: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    credentials: typing.Optional[google.auth.credentials.Credentials] = None,
) -> typing.List[google.cloud.aiplatform.base.VertexAiResourceNoun]

List all instances of this Job Resource.

Example Usage:

aiplatform.BatchPredictionJobs.list( filter='state="JOB_STATE_SUCCEEDED" AND display_name="my_job"', )

Parameters
Name Description
filter str

Optional. An expression for filtering the results of the request. For field names both snake_case and camelCase are supported.
order_by str

Optional. A comma-separated list of fields to order by, sorted in ascending order. Use "desc" after a field name for descending. Supported fields: display_name, create_time, update_time
project str

Optional. Project to retrieve list from. If not set, project set in aiplatform.init will be used.
location str

Optional. Location to retrieve list from. If not set, location set in aiplatform.init will be used.
credentials auth_credentials.Credentials

Optional. Custom credentials to use to retrieve list. Overrides credentials set in aiplatform.init.

run

run(
    service_account: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    network: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    timeout: typing.Optional[int] = None,
    restart_job_on_worker_restart: bool = False,
    enable_web_access: bool = False,
    experiment: typing.Optional[
        typing.Union[
            google.cloud.aiplatform.metadata.experiment_resources.Experiment, str
        ]
    ] = None,
    experiment_run: typing.Optional[
        typing.Union[
            google.cloud.aiplatform.metadata.experiment_run_resource.ExperimentRun, str
        ]
    ] = None,
    tensorboard: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    sync: bool = True,
    create_request_timeout: typing.Optional[float] = None,
    disable_retries: bool = False,
    persistent_resource_id: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    scheduling_strategy: typing.Optional[
        google.cloud.aiplatform_v1.types.custom_job.Scheduling.Strategy
    ] = None,
) -> None

Run this configured CustomJob.

Parameters
Name Description
service_account str

Optional. Specifies the service account for workload run-as account. Users submitting jobs must have act-as permission on this run-as account.
network str

Optional. The full name of the Compute Engine network to which the job should be peered. For example, projects/12345/global/networks/myVPC. Private services access must already be configured for the network. If left unspecified, the network set in aiplatform.init will be used. Otherwise, the job is not peered with any network.
timeout int

The maximum job running time in seconds. The default is 7 days.
restart_job_on_worker_restart bool

Restarts the entire CustomJob if a worker gets restarted. This feature can be used by distributed training jobs that are not resilient to workers leaving and joining a job.
enable_web_access bool

Whether you want Vertex AI to enable interactive shell access to training containers. https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/training/monitor-debug-interactive-shell
experiment Union[aiplatform.Experiment, str]

Optional. The instance or name of an Experiment resource to which this CustomJob will upload training parameters and metrics. service_account is required with provided experiment. For more information on configuring your service account please visit: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/experiments/tensorboard-training
experiment_run Union[aiplatform.ExperimentRun, str]

Optional. The instance or name of an ExperimentRun resource to which this CustomJob will upload training parameters and metrics. This arg can only be set when experiment is set. If 'experiment' is set but 'experiment_run` is not, an ExperimentRun resource will still be auto-generated.
tensorboard str

Optional. The name of a Vertex AI Tensorboard resource to which this CustomJob will upload Tensorboard logs. Format: projects/{project}/locations/{location}/tensorboards/{tensorboard} The training script should write Tensorboard to following Vertex AI environment variable: AIP_TENSORBOARD_LOG_DIR service_account is required with provided tensorboard. For more information on configuring your service account please visit: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/experiments/tensorboard-training
sync bool

Whether to execute this method synchronously. If False, this method will unblock and it will be executed in a concurrent Future.
create_request_timeout float

Optional. The timeout for the create request in seconds.
disable_retries bool

Indicates if the job should retry for internal errors after the job starts running. If True, overrides restart_job_on_worker_restart to False.
persistent_resource_id str

Optional. The ID of the PersistentResource in the same Project and Location. If this is specified, the job will be run on existing machines held by the PersistentResource instead of on-demand short-live machines. The network, CMEK, and node pool configs on the job should be consistent with those on the PersistentResource, otherwise, the job will be rejected.
scheduling_strategy gca_custom_job_compat.Scheduling.Strategy

Optional. Indicates the job scheduling strategy.

submit

submit(
    *,
    service_account: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    network: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    timeout: typing.Optional[int] = None,
    restart_job_on_worker_restart: bool = False,
    enable_web_access: bool = False,
    experiment: typing.Optional[
        typing.Union[
            google.cloud.aiplatform.metadata.experiment_resources.Experiment, str
        ]
    ] = None,
    experiment_run: typing.Optional[
        typing.Union[
            google.cloud.aiplatform.metadata.experiment_run_resource.ExperimentRun, str
        ]
    ] = None,
    tensorboard: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    create_request_timeout: typing.Optional[float] = None,
    disable_retries: bool = False,
    persistent_resource_id: typing.Optional[str] = None,
    scheduling_strategy: typing.Optional[
        google.cloud.aiplatform_v1.types.custom_job.Scheduling.Strategy
    ] = None
) -> None

Submit the configured CustomJob.

Parameters
Name Description
service_account str

Optional. Specifies the service account for workload run-as account. Users submitting jobs must have act-as permission on this run-as account.
network str

Optional. The full name of the Compute Engine network to which the job should be peered. For example, projects/12345/global/networks/myVPC. Private services access must already be configured for the network.
timeout int

The maximum job running time in seconds. The default is 7 days.
restart_job_on_worker_restart bool

Restarts the entire CustomJob if a worker gets restarted. This feature can be used by distributed training jobs that are not resilient to workers leaving and joining a job.
enable_web_access bool

Whether you want Vertex AI to enable interactive shell access to training containers. https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/training/monitor-debug-interactive-shell
experiment Union[aiplatform.Experiment, str]

Optional. The instance or name of an Experiment resource to which this CustomJob will upload training parameters and metrics. service_account is required with provided experiment. For more information on configuring your service account please visit: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/experiments/tensorboard-training
experiment_run Union[aiplatform.ExperimentRun, str]

Optional. The instance or name of an ExperimentRun resource to which this CustomJob will upload training parameters and metrics. This arg can only be set when experiment is set. If 'experiment' is set but 'experiment_run` is not, an ExperimentRun resource will still be auto-generated.
tensorboard str

Optional. The name of a Vertex AI Tensorboard resource to which this CustomJob will upload Tensorboard logs. Format: projects/{project}/locations/{location}/tensorboards/{tensorboard} The training script should write Tensorboard to following Vertex AI environment variable: AIP_TENSORBOARD_LOG_DIR service_account is required with provided tensorboard. For more information on configuring your service account please visit: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/experiments/tensorboard-training
create_request_timeout float

Optional. The timeout for the create request in seconds.
disable_retries bool

Indicates if the job should retry for internal errors after the job starts running. If True, overrides restart_job_on_worker_restart to False.
persistent_resource_id str

Optional. The ID of the PersistentResource in the same Project and Location. If this is specified, the job will be run on existing machines held by the PersistentResource instead of on-demand short-live machines. The network, CMEK, and node pool configs on the job should be consistent with those on the PersistentResource, otherwise, the job will be rejected.
scheduling_strategy gca_custom_job_compat.Scheduling.Strategy

Optional. Indicates the job scheduling strategy.
Exceptions
Type Description
ValueError If both experiment and tensorboard are specified or if enable_autolog is True in CustomJob.from_local_script but experiment is not specified or the specified experiment doesn't have a backing tensorboard.

to_dict

to_dict() -> typing.Dict[str, typing.Any]

Returns the resource proto as a dictionary.

wait

wait()

Helper method that blocks until all futures are complete.

wait_for_completion

wait_for_completion() -> None

Waits for job to complete.

Exceptions
Type Description
RuntimeError If job failed or cancelled.

wait_for_resource_creation

wait_for_resource_creation() -> None

Waits until resource has been created.