Cortex looks for a file named dependencies.sh
in the top level Cortex project directory (i.e. the directory which contains cortex.yaml
). For example:
./my-classifier/├── cortex.yaml├── predictor.py├── ...└── dependencies.sh
dependencies.sh
is executed with bash
shell during the initialization of each replica (before installing Python packages in requirements.txt
or conda-packages.txt
). Typical use cases include installing required system packages to be used in your Predictor, building Python packages from source, etc. If initialization time is a concern, see Docker images for how to build and use custom Docker images.
Here is an example dependencies.sh
, which installs the tree
utility:
apt-get update && apt-get install -y tree
The tree
utility can now be called inside your predictor.py
:
# predictor.pyimport subprocessclass PythonPredictor:def __init__(self, config):subprocess.run(["tree"])...
If you need to upgrade the Python Runtime version on your image, you can do so in your dependencies.sh
file:
# upgrade python runtime versionconda update -n base -c defaults condaconda install -n env python=3.8.5# re-install cortex core dependencies/usr/local/cortex/install-core-dependencies.sh