Actors#
Actors allow you to reuse a container and environment between tasks, avoiding the cost of starting a new container for each task. This can be useful when you have a task that requires a lot of setup or has a long startup time.
To create an actor, instantiate the ActorEnvironment class, then add the instance as a decorator to the task that requires that environment.
ActorEnvironment parameters#
container_image: The container image to use for the task. Defaults to
cr.flyte.org/flyteorg/flytekit:py3.11-latest.environment: Environment variables as key, value pairs in a Python dictionary.
limits: Compute resource limits.
replica_count: The number of workers to provision that are able to accept tasks.
requests: Compute resource requests per task.
secret_requests: Keys (ideally descriptive) that can identify the secrets supplied at runtime. For more information, see Managing secrets.
ttl_seconds: How long to keep the Actor alive while no tasks are being run.