Idle shutdown
Colab Enterprise runtimes shut down after 180 minutes of
inactivity by default. This page describes the idle shutdown feature and how to
change the default idle shutdown settings or turn the feature off
when you create a runtime template.
Overview
To help manage costs, Colab Enterprise runtimes
shut down after being idle for a specific time period by default.
You can change the amount of time or turn this feature off when you create a
runtime template.
After you create a runtime template, its configuration can't be changed.
Therefore, you can't change a runtime or runtime template's
idle shutdown settings. To use a runtime with different idle shutdown settings,
you must create a runtime template with the settings that you want, and then
use a runtime generated from that runtime template.
Before you begin
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Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to
Google Cloud,
create an account
to evaluate how our products perform in
real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to
run, test, and deploy workloads.
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In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page,
select or
create a Google Cloud project
.
Go to project selector
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Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project
.
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Enable the Vertex AI, Dataform, and Compute Engine APIs.
Enable the APIs
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In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page,
select or
create a Google Cloud project
.
Go to project selector
-
Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project
.
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Enable the Vertex AI, Dataform, and Compute Engine APIs.
Enable the APIs
Required roles
To ensure that your user account has the necessary
permissions to create a runtime template in Colab Enterprise,
ask your administrator to grant your user account the
Colab Enterprise Admin (
roles/aiplatform.colabEnterpriseAdmin
)
IAM role on the project.
For more information about granting roles, see
Manage access
.
Your administrator might also be able to give your user account
the required permissions through
custom
roles
or other
predefined
roles
.
Create a runtime template with specific idle shutdown settings
To create a runtime template with specific idle shutdown settings:
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In the Google Cloud console, go to
the Colab Enterprise
Runtime Templates
page.
Go to Runtime templates
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Click
add_box
New
template
.
The
Create new runtime template
dialog appears.
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In the
Runtime basics
section, enter
a
Display name
.
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In the
Region
menu, select the region where you want
your runtime template.
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To change the idle shutdown settings, click the
Configure compute
section, and complete the
following step.
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In the
Idle shutdown
section:
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To turn off idle shutdown, clear
Enable idle shutdown
.
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To change the inactivity time period, in
Time of inactivity before shutdown (Minutes)
,
change the number to the number of minutes of inactivity that
you want. In the Google Cloud console, this setting can be set
to any integer value from 10 to 1440.
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Complete the rest of the creation dialog.
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Click
Create
to finish creating the runtime template.
Your runtime template appears in the list on
the
Runtime templates
tab.
How idle shutdown works
Your runtime shuts down when the following conditions are met:
To disconnect a runtime from a notebook, close the notebook. Leaving a
notebook open while connected to a runtime prevents the runtime
from shutting down.
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