Quickstart
From an empty workspace to a connected cluster in under five minutes.
This page walks through creating your first cluster from the Vantage UI. The whole flow takes under five minutes.
Open Clusters
From the left sidebar, click Clusters. A cluster type navigation shows Slurm and Kubernetes: click Slurm to see Slurm clusters (the Kubernetes view is shown by default).
Start the wizard
Click Prepare Cluster in the top-right corner. A modal opens with the Configure step.
Configure the cluster
Enter a Cluster Name and select your cloud account. For non-AWS providers, click Create Cluster to submit. For AWS, click Continue to configure region, head node machine type, and partitions before submitting.
Finish and explore
Click the submit button on the final step. Once the cluster connects, click its row to open the detail view.
Success looks like this: the cluster enters provisioning and transitions to ready once the backing infrastructure is configured and the scheduler is running.
What's next
After your first cluster is connected, dive deeper into your cluster type:
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Creating a Slurm cluster | Provider-specific steps for Slurm |
| Creating a Kubernetes cluster | Provider-specific steps for K8s |
| Slurm partitions | Managing job queues |
| Kubernetes compute pools | Managing compute pools |
| On-Premises clusters | Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Juju, Multipass, or manual setup |
Cloud cluster nodes bill while running, even idle ones. Set the maximum node count for each partition or compute pool conservatively during setup. You can raise it when you're ready to run jobs.