Paperspace Provider for DevPod

This is a Paperspace provider for DevPod, initially forked from https://github.com/dirien/devpod-provider-scaleway. This repository uses Paperspace's machines API to provision the machines.

Environment Variables

There are 2 environment variables that you will need to be aware of:

1. PPS_API_KEY: The API key you generate for your account on Paperspace. You will be prompted for this when you add the provider.

   To acquire your API key, you can get it in your workspace settings on Paperspace. For more info, you can look at their docs here.

   

2. SSH_FOLDER: The directory of your Paperspace SSH keys. By default, it is your ~/.ssh folder.

   DevPod will generate your keys and save them to your SSH_FOLDER. The SSH client library uses github.com/loft-sh/devpod/pkg/ssh, which will try to find id_devpod_rsa and id_devpod_rsa.pub in your SSH_FOLDER. If it can't find those files, it will generate its own.

   As of v0.0.15, this provider will automatically authorize the SSH keys in your SSH_FOLDER to your machine.

Getting started

You can install and use this provider by running the following commands:

devpod provider add github.com/dwarvesf/devpod-provider-paperspace
devpod provider use github.com/dwarvesf/devpod-provider-paperspace

Trying it out

You can use Microsoft's vscode-remote-try-node's example app to try out the provider. To keep it interactive, we'll use the openvscode IDE to run VSCode in the browser. You can run the following command to try it out:

devpod up github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-try-node --ide openvscode

It should take a bit while it is provisioning the machine for you, but you will be emailed by Paperspace that you have created a new machine. You can reference an example output from the command here: https://app.warp.dev/block/pgQghAkqstTdyCevilplVa

You should then see a new window open to your new localhost server, running VSCode in the browser.

Customizing the workspace

You can customize the environment variables after installation by updating the DevPod provider options like so:

devpod provider use paperspace -o PPS_MACHINE_TYPE="GPU+"

With this, there are a few environment variables you should be aware of so that you can set and customize your machine type and OS:

1. PPS_MACHINE_TYPE: The type of machine you want to use.

   The default machine type that gets provisioned uses C4, which offers 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM. If you would like to choose a different machine type, you can reference the tables below:

   Label	CPUs	RAM (GB)	GPU
   C4	2	4	None
   C5	4	8	None
   C6	8	16	None
   C7	12	30	None
   C8	16	60	None
   C9	24	120	None
   C10	32	244	None

   You also have the option to use machines with GPUs:

   Label	CPUs	RAM (GB)	GPU
   GPU+	8	30	Quadro M4000
   P4000	8	30	Quadro P4000
   P5000	8	30	Quadro P5000
   P6000	8	30	Quadro P6000
   RTX4000	8	30	Quadro RTX4000
   RTX5000	8	30	Quadro RTX5000
   P5000x2	16	60	Quadro P5000
   P6000x2	16	60	Quadro P6000
   RTX5000x2	16	60	Quadro RTX5000
   P4000x2	16	60	Quadro P4000

   You can find more info about the available machine types here.

   To edit your machine type for your workspace, manually set the environment variable when using the provider:

   devpod provider use paperspace -o PPS_MACHINE_TYPE="GPU+"
   

2. PPS_MACHINE_TEMPLATE: The machine template and OS you want to use. The default template that is used when DevPod first installs the provider is t0nspur5, which runs a headless Ubuntu 22.04 server with a default disk size of 50GB.

   Paperspace comes with a handful of machine templates. They don't document it, unfortunately, so you can reference the template IDs from the table below.

   ID	Agent Type	Operating System Label	Default Size (GB)
   tnr2oh1m	WindowsDesktop	Windows 10 (Server 2022) - Licensed	50
   t9taj00e	LinuxHeadless	CentOS 7 Server	50
   t04azgph	LinuxHeadless	Ubuntu 18.04 Server	50
   t0nspur5	LinuxHeadless	Ubuntu 22.04 Server	50
   tkni3aa4	LinuxHeadless	Ubuntu 20.04 Server	50
   tpi7gqht	LinuxHeadless	Ubuntu 22.04 K8s Worker	50

   You can set the PPS_MACHINE_TEMPLATE with the ID of the operating system you wish to use, like so:

   devpod provider use paperspace -o PPS_MACHINE_TEMPLATE="t9taj00e"
   

3. PPS_DISK_SIZE: The disk size of the virtual machine you want to use. The default disk size is 50GB.

   You can set the provider option just like with the other environment variables. The value you set will be represented in GBs:

   devpod provider use paperspace -o PPS_DISK_SIZE="100"