Once your model is exported and you've implemented a Predictor, you can configure your API via a YAML file (typically named cortex.yaml).
Reference the section below which corresponds to your Predictor type: Python, TensorFlow, or ONNX.
- name: <string> # API name (required)kind: RealtimeAPIpredictor:type: pythonpath: <string> # path to a python file with a PythonPredictor class definition, relative to the Cortex root (required)processes_per_replica: <int> # the number of parallel serving processes to run on each replica (default: 1)threads_per_process: <int> # the number of threads per process (default: 1)config: <string: value> # arbitrary dictionary passed to the constructor of the Predictor (optional)python_path: <string> # path to the root of your Python folder that will be appended to PYTHONPATH (default: folder containing cortex.yaml)image: <string> # docker image to use for the Predictor (default: cortexlabs/python-predictor-cpu or cortexlabs/python-predictor-gpu based on compute)env: <string: string> # dictionary of environment variablesnetworking:endpoint: <string> # the endpoint for the API (aws only) (default: <api_name>)local_port: <int> # specify the port for API (local only) (default: 8888)api_gateway: public | none # whether to create a public API Gateway endpoint for this API (if not, the load balancer will be accessed directly) (default: public)compute:cpu: <string | int | float> # CPU request per replica, e.g. 200m or 1 (200m is equivalent to 0.2) (default: 200m)gpu: <int> # GPU request per replica (default: 0)inf: <int> # Inferentia ASIC request per replica (default: 0)mem: <string> # memory request per replica, e.g. 200Mi or 1Gi (default: Null)monitoring: # (aws only)model_type: <string> # must be "classification" or "regression", so responses can be interpreted correctly (i.e. categorical vs continuous) (required)key: <string> # the JSON key in the response payload of the value to monitor (required if the response payload is a JSON object)autoscaling: # (aws only)min_replicas: <int> # minimum number of replicas (default: 1)max_replicas: <int> # maximum number of replicas (default: 100)init_replicas: <int> # initial number of replicas (default: <min_replicas>)target_replica_concurrency: <float> # the desired number of in-flight requests per replica, which the autoscaler tries to maintain (default: processes_per_replica * threads_per_process)max_replica_concurrency: <int> # the maximum number of in-flight requests per replica before requests are rejected with error code 503 (default: 1024)window: <duration> # the time over which to average the API's concurrency (default: 60s)downscale_stabilization_period: <duration> # the API will not scale below the highest recommendation made during this period (default: 5m)upscale_stabilization_period: <duration> # the API will not scale above the lowest recommendation made during this period (default: 1m)max_downscale_factor: <float> # the maximum factor by which to scale down the API on a single scaling event (default: 0.75)max_upscale_factor: <float> # the maximum factor by which to scale up the API on a single scaling event (default: 1.5)downscale_tolerance: <float> # any recommendation falling within this factor below the current number of replicas will not trigger a scale down event (default: 0.05)upscale_tolerance: <float> # any recommendation falling within this factor above the current number of replicas will not trigger a scale up event (default: 0.05)update_strategy: # (aws only)max_surge: <string | int> # maximum number of replicas that can be scheduled above the desired number of replicas during an update; can be an absolute number, e.g. 5, or a percentage of desired replicas, e.g. 10% (default: 25%) (set to 0 to disable rolling updates)max_unavailable: <string | int> # maximum number of replicas that can be unavailable during an update; can be an absolute number, e.g. 5, or a percentage of desired replicas, e.g. 10% (default: 25%)
See additional documentation for parallelism, autoscaling, compute, networking, prediction monitoring, and overriding API images.
- name: <string> # API name (required)kind: RealtimeAPIpredictor:type: tensorflowpath: <string> # path to a python file with a TensorFlowPredictor class definition, relative to the Cortex root (required)model_path: <string> # S3 path to an exported model (e.g. s3://my-bucket/exported_model) (either this or 'models' must be provided)signature_key: <string> # name of the signature def to use for prediction (required if your model has more than one signature def)models: # use this when multiple models per API are desired (either this or 'model_path' must be provided)- name: <string> # unique name for the model (e.g. text-generator) (required)model_path: <string> # S3 path to an exported model (e.g. s3://my-bucket/exported_model) (required)signature_key: <string> # name of the signature def to use for prediction (required if your model has more than one signature def)...server_side_batching: # (optional)max_batch_size: <int> # the maximum number of requests to aggregate before running inferencebatch_interval: <duration> # the maximum amount of time to spend waiting for additional requests before running inference on the batch of requestsprocesses_per_replica: <int> # the number of parallel serving processes to run on each replica (default: 1)threads_per_process: <int> # the number of threads per process (default: 1)config: <string: value> # arbitrary dictionary passed to the constructor of the Predictor (optional)python_path: <string> # path to the root of your Python folder that will be appended to PYTHONPATH (default: folder containing cortex.yaml)image: <string> # docker image to use for the Predictor (default: cortexlabs/tensorflow-predictor)tensorflow_serving_image: <string> # docker image to use for the TensorFlow Serving container (default: cortexlabs/tensorflow-serving-gpu or cortexlabs/tensorflow-serving-cpu based on compute)env: <string: string> # dictionary of environment variablesnetworking:endpoint: <string> # the endpoint for the API (aws only) (default: <api_name>)local_port: <int> # specify the port for API (local only) (default: 8888)api_gateway: public | none # whether to create a public API Gateway endpoint for this API (if not, the load balancer will be accessed directly) (default: public)compute:cpu: <string | int | float> # CPU request per replica, e.g. 200m or 1 (200m is equivalent to 0.2) (default: 200m)gpu: <int> # GPU request per replica (default: 0)inf: <int> # Inferentia ASIC request per replica (default: 0)mem: <string> # memory request per replica, e.g. 200Mi or 1Gi (default: Null)monitoring: # (aws only)model_type: <string> # must be "classification" or "regression", so responses can be interpreted correctly (i.e. categorical vs continuous) (required)key: <string> # the JSON key in the response payload of the value to monitor (required if the response payload is a JSON object)autoscaling: # (aws only)min_replicas: <int> # minimum number of replicas (default: 1)max_replicas: <int> # maximum number of replicas (default: 100)init_replicas: <int> # initial number of replicas (default: <min_replicas>)target_replica_concurrency: <float> # the desired number of in-flight requests per replica, which the autoscaler tries to maintain (default: processes_per_replica * threads_per_process)max_replica_concurrency: <int> # the maximum number of in-flight requests per replica before requests are rejected with error code 503 (default: 1024)window: <duration> # the time over which to average the API's concurrency (default: 60s)downscale_stabilization_period: <duration> # the API will not scale below the highest recommendation made during this period (default: 5m)upscale_stabilization_period: <duration> # the API will not scale above the lowest recommendation made during this period (default: 1m)max_downscale_factor: <float> # the maximum factor by which to scale down the API on a single scaling event (default: 0.75)max_upscale_factor: <float> # the maximum factor by which to scale up the API on a single scaling event (default: 1.5)downscale_tolerance: <float> # any recommendation falling within this factor below the current number of replicas will not trigger a scale down event (default: 0.05)upscale_tolerance: <float> # any recommendation falling within this factor above the current number of replicas will not trigger a scale up event (default: 0.05)update_strategy: # (aws only)max_surge: <string | int> # maximum number of replicas that can be scheduled above the desired number of replicas during an update; can be an absolute number, e.g. 5, or a percentage of desired replicas, e.g. 10% (default: 25%) (set to 0 to disable rolling updates)max_unavailable: <string | int> # maximum number of replicas that can be unavailable during an update; can be an absolute number, e.g. 5, or a percentage of desired replicas, e.g. 10% (default: 25%)
See additional documentation for parallelism, autoscaling, compute, networking, prediction monitoring, and overriding API images.
- name: <string> # API name (required)kind: RealtimeAPIpredictor:type: onnxpath: <string> # path to a python file with an ONNXPredictor class definition, relative to the Cortex root (required)model_path: <string> # S3 path to an exported model (e.g. s3://my-bucket/exported_model.onnx) (either this or 'models' must be provided)models: # use this when multiple models per API are desired (either this or 'model_path' must be provided)- name: <string> # unique name for the model (e.g. text-generator) (required)model_path: <string> # S3 path to an exported model (e.g. s3://my-bucket/exported_model.onnx) (required)signature_key: <string> # name of the signature def to use for prediction (required if your model has more than one signature def)...processes_per_replica: <int> # the number of parallel serving processes to run on each replica (default: 1)threads_per_process: <int> # the number of threads per process (default: 1)config: <string: value> # arbitrary dictionary passed to the constructor of the Predictor (optional)python_path: <string> # path to the root of your Python folder that will be appended to PYTHONPATH (default: folder containing cortex.yaml)image: <string> # docker image to use for the Predictor (default: cortexlabs/onnx-predictor-gpu or cortexlabs/onnx-predictor-cpu based on compute)env: <string: string> # dictionary of environment variablesnetworking:endpoint: <string> # the endpoint for the API (aws only) (default: <api_name>)local_port: <int> # specify the port for API (local only) (default: 8888)api_gateway: public | none # whether to create a public API Gateway endpoint for this API (if not, the load balancer will be accessed directly) (default: public)compute:cpu: <string | int | float> # CPU request per replica, e.g. 200m or 1 (200m is equivalent to 0.2) (default: 200m)gpu: <int> # GPU request per replica (default: 0)mem: <string> # memory request per replica, e.g. 200Mi or 1Gi (default: Null)monitoring: # (aws only)model_type: <string> # must be "classification" or "regression", so responses can be interpreted correctly (i.e. categorical vs continuous) (required)key: <string> # the JSON key in the response payload of the value to monitor (required if the response payload is a JSON object)autoscaling: # (aws only)min_replicas: <int> # minimum number of replicas (default: 1)max_replicas: <int> # maximum number of replicas (default: 100)init_replicas: <int> # initial number of replicas (default: <min_replicas>)target_replica_concurrency: <float> # the desired number of in-flight requests per replica, which the autoscaler tries to maintain (default: processes_per_replica * threads_per_process)max_replica_concurrency: <int> # the maximum number of in-flight requests per replica before requests are rejected with error code 503 (default: 1024)window: <duration> # the time over which to average the API's concurrency (default: 60s)downscale_stabilization_period: <duration> # the API will not scale below the highest recommendation made during this period (default: 5m)upscale_stabilization_period: <duration> # the API will not scale above the lowest recommendation made during this period (default: 1m)max_downscale_factor: <float> # the maximum factor by which to scale down the API on a single scaling event (default: 0.75)max_upscale_factor: <float> # the maximum factor by which to scale up the API on a single scaling event (default: 1.5)downscale_tolerance: <float> # any recommendation falling within this factor below the current number of replicas will not trigger a scale down event (default: 0.05)upscale_tolerance: <float> # any recommendation falling within this factor above the current number of replicas will not trigger a scale up event (default: 0.05)update_strategy: # (aws only)max_surge: <string | int> # maximum number of replicas that can be scheduled above the desired number of replicas during an update; can be an absolute number, e.g. 5, or a percentage of desired replicas, e.g. 10% (default: 25%) (set to 0 to disable rolling updates)max_unavailable: <string | int> # maximum number of replicas that can be unavailable during an update; can be an absolute number, e.g. 5, or a percentage of desired replicas, e.g. 10% (default: 25%)
See additional documentation for parallelism, autoscaling, compute, networking, prediction monitoring, and overriding API images.