/azure-render-hub

Easily create a hybrid render farm in Azure connected to your Deadline or Qube! environment.

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Azure Render Hub

The Azure Render Hub is an Azure Web App that simplifies the creation and managment of your hybrid or cloud rendering infrastructure.
Azure Render Hub comes with native support for deploying PipelineFx Qube! (6.10 and 7.0) and Thinkbox Deadline 10. Support for other render farm managers, like OpenCue, will be added in the future.

The portal Web App can be easily deployed into your existing Azure subscription as per the instructions referenced below.

Render Hub Screenshot

What Render Hub Does

  • Create Azure infrastructure to extend your existing render farm
  • Configures the resources to work together
  • Provides usage and costs

What Render Hub is Not

  • A Render Manager, Queue Manager or Scheduler

It is a prerequisite that you have an existing render farm manager like Deadline, Qube, OpenCue or Tractor.

What's Supported

The following scenarios are currently supported.

Deadline 10

  • Windows with Package Installation
  • Windows with Custom Image
  • Linux with Package Installation - Not Supported
  • Linux with Custom Image

Qube

  • Windows with Package Installation
  • Windows with Custom Image
  • Linux with Package Installation - Not Supported
  • Linux with Custom Image - Not Supported

OpenCue

  • Linux with Package Installation
  • Linux with Custom Image

Tractor 2.x

  • Windows with Package Installation
  • Windows with Custom Image
  • Linux with Package Installation
  • Linux with Custom Image

The unsupported items are in progress and will be available shortly.

Deploying

For deployment instructions see here.

Click the following link to start a deployment into your existing Azure subscription. The required input fields and prerequisites are described in the detailed deployment instructions.

Deploy to Azure

Documentation

For more information about Azure Render Hub see the docs here.

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.

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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.