Creating a workbench

A workbench is an instance of your development and experimentation environment. When you create a workbench, you select a workbench image (sometimes referred to as a notebook image) that is optimized with the tools and libraries that you need for developing models.

Prerequisites
  • You created a My Storage connection as described in Storage Setup.

Procedure
  1. Navigate to the project detail page for the data science project that you created in Setting up your data science project.

  2. Click the Workbenches tab, and then click the Create workbench button.

    Create workbench button
  3. Fill out the name and description.

    Workbench name and description

    Red Hat provides several supported workbench images. In the Notebook image section, you can choose one of the default images or a custom image that an administrator has set up for you. The Standard Data Science image has the libraries needed for this workshop.

  4. Select the latest Standard Data Science image.

    Workbench image
  5. Choose a small deployment.

    Workbench size
  6. Edit the storage options and increase the storage size to 100GB.

    This is optional and only needed if you plan on downloading models to object storage later in the workshop.

    Workbench storage
    Workbench storage
  7. For Connections, click Attach existing connection.

  8. Select My Storage (the object storage that you configured previously) and then click Attach.

    Connection form
  9. Click Create workbench.

  10. Click the link for your workbench. If prompted, log in and allow the Notebook to authorize your user.

    Open workbench

    Your JupyterLab environment window opens.

    This file-browser window shows the files and folders that are saved inside your own personal space in OpenShift AI.

  11. Bring the content of this workshop inside your JupyterLab environment:

    1. On the toolbar, click the Git Clone icon:

      Git Clone icon
    2. Enter the following workshop Git https URL:

      https://github.com/cfchase/serving-models.git
      Git Modal
    3. Select the Include submodules option, and then click Clone.

    4. In the file browser, double-click the newly-created serving-models folder.

      Jupyter file browser
Next step

3. Using the API