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Windows environment setup

Steps undertaken for Windows CI AMI creation. Pre-requisite - AWS CLI is installed and configured.

Step 1 : Get AMI id

aws ssm get-parameter --name /aws/service/ami-windows-latest/Windows_Server-2019-English-Full-Base

Step 2 : Instance Creation

Choose AMI

Use AMI ID from Step 1

Choose Instance Type

Nothing specific. Can choose P2 instance

Configure Instance

Add user data while creating instance (Configure Instance -> User Data) as follows

User data

<powershell>
cd C:\Users\Administrator
$progressPreference = 'silentlyContinue'
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe -OutFile setup-x86_64.exe
.\setup-x86_64.exe --site http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com --quiet-mode --root "C:\cygwin64" --local-package-dir "C:\Users\Administrator" --verbose --prune-install --packages openssh,git,rsync,vim,python3
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://windows-post-install.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/windows.zip -OutFile windows.zip
Expand-Archive -LiteralPath .\windows.zip
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=win64&lang=en-US" -OutFile ffox.exe
.\ffox.exe /n /s
reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /v HideFileExt /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
</powershell>

Add storage

200Gig storage

Security Group

Select an existing security group Choose both : AWS RDP and AWS SSH

Step 3 : Instance steps

Using Microsoft Remote Desktop, connect to the remote instance. In a powershell prompt execute

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force
./setup.ps1

Step 4 : Create AMI with base dependencies

Stop the instance. Create Amazon Machine Image out of the instance (Windows GPU Updated Deps AMI) Refer : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/toolkit-for-visual-studio/latest/user-guide/tkv-create-ami-from-instance.html

Step 5 : Launch instance with Base AMI

Upon launching the p2 instance using the base AMI (username password same as 1 used for creating base AMI) Clone the repo and build for windows :

git clone -b windows_builds --recursive https://github.com/larroy/mxnet.git
python .\ci\build_windows.py

Step 6 : Create the Windows GPU Jenkins AMI

It differs from the previous AMI as it has base AMI + Jenkins Slave autoconnect.

Restart the stopped instance

./jenkins_slave.ps1

Create Amazon Machine Image (just like Step 4)

Step 7 : Test

To Do: Add step to update the CI Infra on AWS to pick the updated AMI. For testing, run a job (windows GPU in this case) on Jenkins CI Dev.

CUDA 10.2: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/10.2/Prod/network_installers/cuda_10.2.89_win10_network.exe