Quickstart guide

Set up your account and provision compute in minutes

Foundry Cloud Platform is currently limited access to ensure the best user experience as we scale up capacity. You can join the waitlist here.

Set up your account

1

Create your account

Once you've been granted to the platform, you will receive an email inviting you to create an account on app.mlfoundry.com.

2

Add SSH keys

From the SSH keys tab in the left nav, add any SSH keys that you will use to access your instances. You can add your own keys or have Foundry create a key for you that will auto-download. Remember to keep your private SSH key safe. When creating a reservation or spot bid, you will choose the SSH keys you want to use to access your instance.

3

Add a payment method

You'll need to add a payment method before you can create your first reservation or spot bid. If you have credits on your account, they will be used before billing to your chosen payment method.

Check the price chart

The Price chart page shows the current pricing for instances on Foundry. In the table below the price chart, you can see all the instance types available on Foundry, their respective GPU types and specifications, and the current price for reserved and spot instances in each pool.

Spot prices are dynamic and may increase or decrease while your instances are in use. You can learn more about spot pricing and billing in this article.

Create a reservation or spot bid

Once you've set up your account and determined which instance type you'd like to use, you're ready to create your first reservation or spot bid!

1

Start

From the Price chart or Instances page, select Create instances.

2

Choose if you'd like to create a reservation or a spot bid.

Reservations give you guaranteed access to your instances for a set period of time. Spot bids allow you to use unreserved capacity as preemptible instances whenever the spot price is below the limit price that you set in your bid. See Compute overview for additional information.

3

Choose instance options and configuration

For step-by-step guides on creating reservations and spot bids, see Reserving compute and Spot bids, respectively.

To attach persistent storage to your instances in this step, you must first provision storage in the same region. For details on provisioning persistent storage, see Persistent storage.

4

Check the status of your reservation or spot bids

Once you've submitted your reservation or bid, navigate to the Instances tab. Here, you can see all of your currently allocated instances. You can see the status of entire reservations and spot bids under the Reservations and Spot Bids tabs, respectively.

5

Access your instances 🎉

Once your instance shows a status of Allocated you can access it with the selected SSH keys. You can click on the instance name to review details about the instance, including the selected SSH keys.