config

Lithops configuration

By default Lithops works on Localhost if no configuration is provided. To run workloads on the Cloud, you must configure both a compute and a storage backend. Failing to configure them properly will prevent Lithops to submit workloads. Lithops configuration can be provided either in a configuration file or in runtime via a Python dictionary.

Configuration file

To configure Lithops through a configuration file you have multiple options:

1. Create a new file called config in the ~/.lithops folder (i.e: ~/.lithops/config).

2. Create a new file called .lithops_config in the root directory of your project from where you will execute your Lithops scripts.

3. Create a new file called config in the /etc/lithops/ folder (i.e: /etc/lithops/config). Useful for sharing the config file on multi-user machines.

4. Create the config file in any other location and configure the LITHOPS_CONFIG_FILE system environment variable:

    LITHOPS_CONFIG_FILE=<CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION>
   

Configuration keys in runtime

An alternative mode of configuration is to use a python dictionary. This option allows to pass all the configuration details as part of the Lithops invocation in runtime. An entire list of sections and keys is here

Compute and Storage backends

Choose your compute and storage engines from the table below

Compute Backends	Storage Backends
Localhost Serverless (FaaS) Backends: AWS Lambda Google Cloud Functions Azure Functions Aliyun Functions Oracle Cloud Functions OpenWhisk Serverless (CaaS) Backends: IBM Code Engine AWS Batch Google Cloud Run Azure Container APPs Kubernetes Knative Standalone Backends: Virtual Machine IBM Virtual Private Cloud AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Azure Virtual Machines	Localhost Object Storage: IBM Cloud Object Storage AWS S3 Google Cloud Storage Azure Blob Storage Aliyun Object Storage Service Oracle Cloud Object Storage Ceph MinIO OpenStack Swift In-Memory Storage: Redis Infinispan

Verify

Test if Lithops is working properly:

Using Lithops configuration file

import lithops

def hello_world(name):
    return f'Hello {name}!'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    fexec = lithops.FunctionExecutor()
    fexec.call_async(hello_world, 'World')
    print(fexec.get_result())

Providing configuration in runtime

Example of providing configuration keys for IBM Code Engine and IBM Cloud Object Storage

import lithops

config = {
    'lithops': {
        'backend': 'code_engine',
        'storage': 'ibm_cos'
    },
    'ibm': {
        'region': 'REGION',
        'iam_api_key': 'IAM_API_KEY',
        'resource_group_id': 'RESOURCE_GROUP_ID'
    },
    'ibm_cos': {
        'storage_bucket': 'STORAGE_BUCKET'
    }
}

def hello_world(name):
    return f'Hello {name}!'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    fexec = lithops.FunctionExecutor(config=config)
    fexec.call_async(hello_world, 'World')
    print(fexec.get_result())

Summary of configuration keys for Lithops

Group	Key	Default	Mandatory	Additional info
lithops	backend	aws_lambda	no	Compute backend implementation. localhost is the default if no config or config file is provided
lithops	storage	aws_s3	no	Storage backend implementation. localhost is the default if no config or config file is provided
lithops	data_cleaner	True	no	If set to True, then the cleaner will automatically delete all the temporary data that was written into storage_bucket/lithops.jobs
lithops	monitoring	storage	no	Monitoring system implementation. One of: storage or rabbitmq
lithops	monitoring_interval	2	no	Monitoring check interval in seconds in case of storage monitoring
lithops	data_limit	4	no	Max (iter)data size (in MB). Set to False for unlimited size
lithops	execution_timeout	1800	no	Functions will be automatically killed if they exceed this execution time (in seconds). Alternatively, it can be set in the call_async(), map() or map_reduce() calls using the timeout parameter.
lithops	include_modules	[]	no	Explicitly pickle these dependencies. All required dependencies are pickled if default empty list. No one dependency is pickled if it is explicitly set to None
lithops	exclude_modules	[]	no	Explicitly keep these modules from pickled dependencies. It is not taken into account if you set include_modules
lithops	log_level	INFO	no	Logging level. One of: WARNING, INFO, DEBUG, ERROR, CRITICAL, Set to None to disable logging
lithops	log_format	"%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(name)s -- %(message)s"	no	Logging format string
lithops	log_stream	ext://sys.stderr	no	Logging stream. eg.: ext://sys.stderr, ext://sys.stdout
lithops	log_filename		no	Path to a file. log_filename has preference over log_stream.