From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>, Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kruces.com>,
kdevops@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>, Your Name <email@example.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 10/10] kconfigs: enable Lambda Labs cloud provider in menus
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:00:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250831040004.2159779-11-mcgrof@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250831040004.2159779-1-mcgrof@kernel.org>
Enable Lambda Labs cloud provider in kdevops configuration system:
- kconfigs/Kconfig.bringup: Add Lambda Labs to bringup provider menu
- defconfigs/*: Add comprehensive example configurations
- lambdalabs-smart: Smart cheapest instance selection
- lambdalabs-gpu-*: GPU-specific configurations
- lambdalabs-shared-key: Shared SSH key setup
- PROMPTS.md: Document AI prompts used for development
Lambda Labs defconfig examples:
- Single GPU: A10, A100, H100 optimized configurations
- Multi-GPU: 8x A100, 8x H100 for ML workloads
- Smart selection: Automatic cheapest instance selection
- Shared infrastructure: Common SSH key management
This completes Lambda Labs integration, making it available
through standard kdevops configuration workflows.
Generated-by: Claude AI
Signed-off-by: Your Name <email@example.com>
---
PROMPTS.md | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
defconfigs/lambdalabs | 15 +++++++++
defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-a10 | 9 +++++
defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-a100 | 8 +++++
defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-h100 | 8 +++++
defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-8x-a100 | 8 +++++
defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-8x-h100 | 8 +++++
defconfigs/lambdalabs-shared-key | 11 ++++++
defconfigs/lambdalabs-smart | 10 ++++++
kconfigs/Kconfig.bringup | 5 +++
10 files changed, 138 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 defconfigs/lambdalabs
create mode 100644 defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-a10
create mode 100644 defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-a100
create mode 100644 defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-h100
create mode 100644 defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-8x-a100
create mode 100644 defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-8x-h100
create mode 100644 defconfigs/lambdalabs-shared-key
create mode 100644 defconfigs/lambdalabs-smart
diff --git a/PROMPTS.md b/PROMPTS.md
index 1b60cbe..c87a3b3 100644
--- a/PROMPTS.md
+++ b/PROMPTS.md
@@ -280,3 +280,59 @@ The implementation successfully added:
to do is to use a separate fact if you want a true dynamic variable. This
is why we switched to an active ref prefix for the baseline and dev group
ref tags.
+
+## Cloud provider integrations
+
+### Adding Lambda Labs cloud provider support with dynamic Kconfig
+
+**Prompt:**
+The Lambda Labs company helps you use GPUs online, kind of like AWS, or OCI. Add
+support for the terraform support for Lambda Labs. The best provider docs are at
+https://registry.terraform.io/providers/elct9620/lambdalabs/latest/docs . Then
+To create the kconfig values you will implement support to use the lambda cloud
+API to let us query for what type of instances they have available and so forth.
+Therefore the Kconfig stuff for Lambda labs will all be dynamic. So we'll want
+to expand this as part of what make dynconfig does. However note that dynconfig
+does *all* dynamically generated kconfig. We want to add support for make
+cloud-config as a new target which is dynamic which is a subset of make
+dynconfig ; OK! good luck
+
+**AI:** Claude Code (Opus 4.1)
+**Commit:** [To be determined]
+**Result:** Complete Lambda Labs integration with dynamic Kconfig generation.
+**Grading:** 75%
+
+**Notes:**
+
+The implementation successfully added:
+
+1. **Terraform Provider Integration**: Created complete Terraform configuration
+ for Lambda Labs including instance management, persistent storage, and SSH
+ configuration management following existing cloud provider patterns.
+
+2. **Dynamic Kconfig Generation**: Implemented Python script to query Lambda Labs
+ API for available instance types, regions, and OS images. Generated dynamic
+ Kconfig files with fallback defaults when API is unavailable.
+
+3. **Build System Integration**: Added `make cloud-config` as a new target for
+ cloud-specific dynamic configuration, properly integrated with `make dynconfig`.
+ Created modular Makefile structure for cloud provider dynamic configuration.
+
+4. **Kconfig Structure**: Properly integrated Lambda Labs into the provider
+ selection system with modular Kconfig files for location, compute, storage,
+ and identity management.
+
+Biggest issues:
+
+1. **SSH Management**: For this it failed to realize the provider
+ didn't suport asking for a custom username, so we had to find out the
+ hard way.
+
+2. **Environment variables**: For some reason it wanted to define the
+ credential API as an environment variable. This proved painful as some
+ environment variables do not carry over for some ansible tasks. The
+ best solution was to follow the strategy similar to what AWS supports
+ with ~/.lambdalabs/credentials. This a more secure alternative.
+
+Minor issues:
+- Some whitespace formatting was automatically fixed by the linter
diff --git a/defconfigs/lambdalabs b/defconfigs/lambdalabs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3314954
--- /dev/null
+++ b/defconfigs/lambdalabs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Lambda Labs default configuration with smart cheapest instance selection
+# Automatically:
+# 1. Detects your location from public IP
+# 2. Finds the cheapest available GPU instance
+# 3. Selects the closest region where it's available
+# 4. Creates unique SSH key per project directory for security
+# 5. Auto-uploads SSH key to Lambda Labs on first run
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_SMART_CHEAPEST=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_SSH_KEY_UNIQUE=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_SSH_KEY_AUTO_CREATE=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_OVERWRITE=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_EMPTY_PASSPHRASE=y
diff --git a/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-a10 b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-a10
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a2b4f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-a10
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Lambda Labs GPU 1x A10 instance - budget-friendly option ($0.75/hr)
+# Automatically selects the best available region
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_REGION_SMART_INFER=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_INSTANCE_TYPE_GPU_1X_A10=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_OVERWRITE=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_EMPTY_PASSPHRASE=y
diff --git a/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-a100 b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-a100
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..961b9a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-a100
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Lambda Labs GPU 1x A100 instance - high performance single GPU
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_REGION_SMART_INFER=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_INSTANCE_TYPE_GPU_1X_A100_SXM4=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_OVERWRITE=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_EMPTY_PASSPHRASE=y
diff --git a/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-h100 b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-h100
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7ee1568
--- /dev/null
+++ b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-1x-h100
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Lambda Labs GPU 1x H100 instance - latest generation single GPU
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_REGION_SMART_INFER=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_INSTANCE_TYPE_GPU_1X_H100_SXM5=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_OVERWRITE=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_EMPTY_PASSPHRASE=y
diff --git a/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-8x-a100 b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-8x-a100
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81bd6c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-8x-a100
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Lambda Labs GPU 8x A100 instance - multi-GPU compute cluster
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_REGION_SMART_INFER=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_INSTANCE_TYPE_GPU_8X_A100=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_OVERWRITE=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_EMPTY_PASSPHRASE=y
diff --git a/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-8x-h100 b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-8x-h100
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd4f895
--- /dev/null
+++ b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-gpu-8x-h100
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Lambda Labs GPU 8x H100 instance - top-tier multi-GPU cluster
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_REGION_SMART_INFER=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_INSTANCE_TYPE_GPU_8X_H100_SXM5=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_OVERWRITE=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_EMPTY_PASSPHRASE=y
diff --git a/defconfigs/lambdalabs-shared-key b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-shared-key
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7c0ac7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-shared-key
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Lambda Labs configuration with shared SSH key (legacy mode)
+# Uses a single SSH key name across all projects
+# Less secure but simpler for testing
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_SMART_CHEAPEST=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_SSH_KEY_SHARED=y
+# Manual key name can be set via menuconfig
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_OVERWRITE=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_EMPTY_PASSPHRASE=y
diff --git a/defconfigs/lambdalabs-smart b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-smart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c8721e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/defconfigs/lambdalabs-smart
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Lambda Labs with smart defaults - cheapest instance and best region
+# Automatically selects the cheapest available instance type
+# Automatically selects the best available region for that instance
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_REGION_SMART_INFER=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_LAMBDALABS_INSTANCE_TYPE_GPU_1X_A10=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_OVERWRITE=y
+CONFIG_TERRAFORM_SSH_CONFIG_GENKEY_EMPTY_PASSPHRASE=y
diff --git a/kconfigs/Kconfig.bringup b/kconfigs/Kconfig.bringup
index 8caf07b..b64ba50 100644
--- a/kconfigs/Kconfig.bringup
+++ b/kconfigs/Kconfig.bringup
@@ -9,8 +9,13 @@ config KDEVOPS_ENABLE_NIXOS
bool
output yaml
+config CLOUD_INITIALIZED
+ bool
+ default $(shell, test -f .cloud.initialized && echo y || echo n) = "y"
+
choice
prompt "Node bring up method"
+ default TERRAFORM if CLOUD_INITIALIZED
default GUESTFS
config GUESTFS
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-31 4:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-31 3:59 [PATCH v3 00/10] terraform: add Lambda Labs cloud provider support Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-31 3:59 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] gitignore: add entries for Lambda Labs dynamic configuration Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-31 3:59 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] scripts: add Lambda Labs Python API library Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-31 3:59 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] scripts: add Lambda Labs testing and debugging utilities Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-31 3:59 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] scripts: add Lambda Labs credentials management Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-31 3:59 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] scripts: add Lambda Labs SSH key management utilities Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-31 4:00 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] kconfig: add dynamic cloud provider configuration infrastructure Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-31 4:00 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] terraform/lambdalabs: add Kconfig structure for Lambda Labs Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-31 4:00 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] terraform/lambdalabs: add terraform provider implementation Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-31 4:00 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] ansible/terraform: integrate Lambda Labs into build system Luis Chamberlain
2025-08-31 4:00 ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
2025-09-01 1:10 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] terraform: add Lambda Labs cloud provider support Luis Chamberlain
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