Cloud Deployment (Experimental)

Clipper images can run on any cloud platform that supports Docker containers using the Clipper Runner.

This should work anywhere Docker containers run on Linux. AWS ECS is currently the only tested platform. Other platforms such as Google Cloud Run, Fly.io, etc. should work but haven’t been validated yet.

For Kubernetes, the runner works but is not recommended. Since you have access to the container runtime, use clipper pull to load images directly into containerd for native performance. Future versions of Clipper will support clipper pull --containerd-namespace k8s.io for Kubernetes usage. See Container Runtimes for details.

See the Runner guide for setup, caching, and limitations.