Unable to deploy PyTorch VM instance

[digs1998]

Hi, I am trying to deploy PyTorch VM instance, after filling in the information, as per the online documentation in Google Cloud, I am running into errors, I am not sure what is causing it.

 

[DamianS · Accepted solution]

@digs1998 

You are trying to deploy this Pytorch VM under the project, which has organization policy constraint preventing External IP for VMs. It means, that VMs under your project or most probably under entire organization are not allowed to get assigned External IP. 

If you have Organization Policy permissions, add your project as an exception , by adding tag to project and into constraint, or disable vmExternalIpAccess organization policy.

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DamianS
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[DamianS]

Hello @digs1998  ,Welcome on Google Cloud Community.

Are you able to provide link for mentioned documentation? It looks like there is an issue either with provided information by user or directly under the deployment source code. 

Update: I've followed this tutorial https://cloud.google.com/deep-learning-vm/docs/pytorch_start_instance and instance has been deployed without any issues:

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DamianS
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[digs1998]

Hi @DamianS, thank you for your response, I have been following this tutorial itself, yet I am getting the errors I mentioned above.

[digs1998]

Hi @DamianS Let me show you my approach while creating the VM instance here based on the template, it seems there is no Pytorch 1.8 + fast ai option, so I chose Pytorch 2.0 with CUDA 11.0.

 

I am still getting the error below.

[DamianS · Accepted solution]

@digs1998 

You are trying to deploy this Pytorch VM under the project, which has organization policy constraint preventing External IP for VMs. It means, that VMs under your project or most probably under entire organization are not allowed to get assigned External IP. 

If you have Organization Policy permissions, add your project as an exception , by adding tag to project and into constraint, or disable vmExternalIpAccess organization policy.

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cheers,
DamianS
LinkedIn medium.com Cloudskillsboost

[DamianS · Accepted solution]

Or you during deployment set ExternalIP to none

But then you must configure either Cloud NAT ( for access to the Internet ) and IAP for being able to log in via ssh 
https://cloud.google.com/nat/docs/gce-example

[digs1998]

Hi @DamianS thank you for the suggestions, this does help, it seems I did not have some permissions earlier, I was able to deploy the instances now.

[DamianS]

Wonderful. Happy to help 😉

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DamianS
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