skypilot

skypilot

Run, manage, and scale AI workloads on any AI infrastructure. Use one system to access & manage all AI compute (Kubernetes, 17+ clouds, or on-prem).

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SkyPilot is a framework for running LLMs, AI, and batch jobs on any cloud, offering maximum cost savings, highest GPU availability, and managed execution. SkyPilot abstracts away cloud infra burdens: - Launch jobs & clusters on any cloud - Easy scale-out: queue and run many jobs, automatically managed - Easy access to object stores (S3, GCS, R2) SkyPilot maximizes GPU availability for your jobs: * Provision in all zones/regions/clouds you have access to (the _Sky_), with automatic failover SkyPilot cuts your cloud costs: * Managed Spot: 3-6x cost savings using spot VMs, with auto-recovery from preemptions * Optimizer: 2x cost savings by auto-picking the cheapest VM/zone/region/cloud * Autostop: hands-free cleanup of idle clusters SkyPilot supports your existing GPU, TPU, and CPU workloads, with no code changes.

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SkyPilot is a system to run, manage, and scale AI workloads on any AI infrastructure.

SkyPilot gives AI teams a simple interface to run jobs on any infra. Infra teams get a unified control plane to manage any AI compute β€” with advanced scheduling, scaling, and orchestration.

SkyPilot Abstractions

Overview

SkyPilot is easy to use for AI teams:

  • Quickly spin up compute on your own infra
  • Environment and job as code β€” simple and portable
  • Easy job management: queue, run, and auto-recover many jobs

SkyPilot makes Kubernetes easy for AI & Infra teams:

  • Slurm-like ease of use, cloud-native robustness
  • Local dev experience on K8s: SSH into pods, sync code, or connect IDE
  • Turbocharge your clusters: gang scheduling, multi-cluster, and scaling

SkyPilot unifies multiple clusters, clouds, and hardware:

SkyPilot cuts your cloud costs & maximizes GPU availability:

  • Autostop: automatic cleanup of idle resources
  • Spot instance support: 3-6x cost savings, with preemption auto-recovery
  • Intelligent scheduling: automatically run on the cheapest & most available infra

SkyPilot supports your existing GPU, TPU, and CPU workloads, with no code changes.

Install with pip:

# Choose your clouds:
pip install -U "skypilot[kubernetes,aws,gcp,azure,oci,nebius,lambda,runpod,fluidstack,paperspace,cudo,ibm,scp]"

To get the latest features and fixes, use the nightly build or install from source:

# Choose your clouds:
pip install "skypilot-nightly[kubernetes,aws,gcp,azure,oci,nebius,lambda,runpod,fluidstack,paperspace,cudo,ibm,scp]"

SkyPilot

Current supported infra: Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, Nebius, Lambda Cloud, RunPod, Fluidstack, Cudo, Digital Ocean, Paperspace, Cloudflare, Samsung, IBM, Vast.ai, VMware vSphere.

SkyPilot

Getting started

You can find our documentation here.

SkyPilot in 1 minute

A SkyPilot task specifies: resource requirements, data to be synced, setup commands, and the task commands.

Once written in this unified interface (YAML or Python API), the task can be launched on any available infra (Kubernetes, cloud, etc.). This avoids vendor lock-in, and allows easily moving jobs to a different provider.

Paste the following into a file my_task.yaml:

resources:
  accelerators: A100:8  # 8x NVIDIA A100 GPU

num_nodes: 1  # Number of VMs to launch

# Working directory (optional) containing the project codebase.
# Its contents are synced to ~/sky_workdir/ on the cluster.
workdir: ~/torch_examples

# Commands to be run before executing the job.
# Typical use: pip install -r requirements.txt, git clone, etc.
setup: |
  cd mnist
  pip install -r requirements.txt

# Commands to run as a job.
# Typical use: launch the main program.
run: |
  cd mnist
  python main.py --epochs 1

Prepare the workdir by cloning:

git clone https://github.com/pytorch/examples.git ~/torch_examples

Launch with sky launch (note: access to GPU instances is needed for this example):

sky launch my_task.yaml

SkyPilot then performs the heavy-lifting for you, including:

  1. Find the cheapest & available infra across your clusters or clouds
  2. Provision the GPUs (pods or VMs), with auto-failover if the infra returned capacity errors
  3. Sync your local workdir to the provisioned cluster
  4. Auto-install dependencies by running the task's setup commands
  5. Run the task's run commands, and stream logs

See Quickstart to get started with SkyPilot.

Runnable examples

See SkyPilot examples that cover: development, training, serving, LLM models, AI apps, and common frameworks.

Latest featured examples:

Task Examples
Training Verl, Finetune Llama 4, TorchTitan, PyTorch, DeepSpeed, NeMo, Ray, Unsloth, Jax/TPU
Serving vLLM, SGLang, Ollama
Models DeepSeek-R1, Llama 4, Llama 3, CodeLlama, Qwen, Kimi-K2, Mixtral
AI apps RAG, vector databases (ChromaDB, CLIP)
Common frameworks Airflow, Jupyter

Source files can be found in llm/ and examples/.

More information

To learn more, see SkyPilot Overview, SkyPilot docs, and SkyPilot blog.

SkyPilot adopters: Testimonials and Case Studies

Partners and integrations: Community Spotlights

Follow updates:

Read the research:

SkyPilot was initially started at the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley and has since gained many industry contributors. To read about the project's origin and vision, see Concept: Sky Computing.

Questions and feedback

We are excited to hear your feedback:

For general discussions, join us on the SkyPilot Slack.

Contributing

We welcome all contributions to the project! See CONTRIBUTING for how to get involved.

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