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Guide for developers

This guide focuses on tasks that developers need to accomplish on Anyscale, including but not limited to developing, debugging, and deploying Ray apps.

Adminstration-related tasks?

As an engineer or scientist, you may also need to complete administration-related tasks, like invite teammates or manage data access. See the administration guide for instructions.

Anyscale benefits​

Anyscale and Ray enable you to develop and deploy Ray apps faster at any scale.

Develop faster​

  • Use the tools you love: Use your own preferred setup and tools (VS Code, Jupyter, Cursor, W&B, etc.)
  • Enhanced observability: Debug more easily with integrated debugger, Grafana, Ray dashboard, etc.
  • Easy collaboration: Instantly share or reproduce experiments with your teammates.

At any scale​

  • Smart autoscaling: Autoscale based on your needs, from 0 to 10K nodes and beyond.
  • Find best instances available: Look for the best instances available for your workload, including spot instances.

Move to production seamlessly​

  • Not more refactoring just for production: Same code and configurations. Just point to your production environment.
  • Flexible and fault-tolerant: single jobs, cron jobs, job queues, services with zero downtime upgrades and high availability.
  • Out-of-box monitoring: Managed Grafana, log viewer, and Ray Dashboard for robust observability and alerting.
  • Easy integration with your own systems: CI/CD, dependency management, observability, and more.

Get support​

  • Official support: To reach out to the team directly, click the support button in the top right corner of the console to submit a ticket or email support@anyscale.com.
  • Community channel: Join the Ray Slack and chat in the #hosted-anyscale-support channel.
Special requests

Reach out to us at support@anyscale.com if you need an Anyscale-hosted cloud immediately or access to the following features on Anyscale-hosted clouds:

  • Access to A100 and H100 GPUs
  • Hosted cloud on Google Cloud Platform
  • Custom cloud storage for data retention
Storage retention policy

Anyscale provides temporary object storage as scratch storage on Anyscale-hosted clouds. $ANYSCALE_ARTIFACT_STORAGE retains data for up to 90 days from the date of creation. Anyscale removes all user data within a maximum of 120 days following account deactivation. Anyscale-hosted clouds may retain logs for up to 2 years. Users can request deletion of their Anyscale-hosted cloud account by contacting Anyscale support.