feat(waterland-studio): containerise the GPU render service on irv-ml1

Replaces a bare nohup on irv-ml1:8410 that would not have survived a reboot,
handed over by waterland-dev. Tracks vh/waterland @ main (PR #4 merged; main
HEAD is exactly the pinned 8025366).

Build context is a checkout at /opt/waterland-studio/src, deliberately OUTSIDE
the compose dir — deploy-stack.sh rsyncs stacks/<stack>/ with --delete and
would otherwise eat it. The Dockerfile is passed out-of-context.

Three landmines, all measured:

1. Both uv extras are load-bearing at build AND run. jobs.py shells the
   renderer out as a literal  with no --extra flags, so uv
   would re-sync at runtime and prune cupy — silently dropping to the numpy
   path at ~21x wall time. UV_NO_SYNC pins it; UV_OFFLINE makes any failure
   loud instead of quietly slow.

2. cupy needs CUDA HEADERS for its NVRTC compile, not just the driver and the
   wheel's runtime libs. The host has a system CUDA toolkit so the nohup
   process found them by accident; a slim image does not, and every render
   died 1.7s in with 'Failed to find CUDA headers' printed through argparse's
   usage banner — which reads like a CLI bug, not a missing toolkit. Fixed
   with cupy-cuda12x[ctk] (hundreds of MB, vs ~6 GB for a -devel base).

3. The A6000 is host device 1 but container device 0, since compose exposes
   exactly one GPU. CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES_TARGET=0 inside; copying the host's
   value selects a device that does not exist.

/root/.cupy is a volume because the NVRTC compile costs ~17s: verified at
23.3s cold vs 6.1s warm, and re-verified across a restart (23.2s on a fresh
cache volume, 6.0s once populated). Warm 256^2+anim beats the 7.4s recorded
against bare metal, so containerising cost nothing.

Job store seeded with the 4 jobs from the displaced instance. Serial by design
(one replica, one card) and unauthenticated, so it stays LAN/WireGuard-only.
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# waterland-studio on irv-ml1. Real .env lives on the host; every value below
# is the compose default, so an absent .env is a working configuration.
WLS_PORT=8410
WLS_CONTAINER=waterland-studio
WLS_BACKEND=cupy
# Docker's device index for the A6000 on this host. Device 0 is the 3090 and
# hosts the TTS zoo — do not point this at it.
WLS_GPU_ID=1
# The A6000's index INSIDE the container. Exactly one GPU is exposed, so it is
# 0 here even though it is 1 on the host. See the Dockerfile.
WLS_CUDA_TARGET=0
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# waterland studio — GPU watercolour render service.
#
# Build context is a CHECKOUT OF vh/waterland, not this directory. See
# compose.yaml: context is /opt/waterland-studio/src and this Dockerfile is
# passed out-of-context so `deploy-stack.sh --delete` can never eat the
# checkout. Refresh the checkout with ./update.sh.
FROM python:3.12-slim
# ffmpeg is not optional — the CLI shells out to it for the VP9 encode of the
# reveal animation. Without it, plate renders succeed and animated ones fail
# at the very end of a 30s GPU job.
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ffmpeg ca-certificates \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:0.9.9 /uv /usr/local/bin/uv
WORKDIR /app
COPY . /app
# ⚠️ BOTH extras are load-bearing. `gpu` carries cupy-cuda12x; a bare
# `uv sync` PRUNES it and the renderer silently drops to the numpy path at
# roughly 21x the wall time — it does not error, it just gets slow. `studio`
# carries fastapi/uvicorn/python-multipart.
RUN uv sync --frozen --extra studio --extra gpu
# ⚠️ CUDA HEADERS — the dependency the host never had to declare.
# cupy compiles kernels at runtime through NVRTC, which needs the CUDA toolkit
# HEADERS present, not just the driver and the runtime libs bundled in the
# cupy-cuda12x wheel. On irv-ml1 that requirement was invisible: a CUDA toolkit
# is installed system-wide, so the bare `nohup` process found headers by
# accident. In a slim image there are none, and every render dies 1.7s in with
# RuntimeError: Failed to find CUDA headers.
# printed through argparse's usage banner, which makes it read like a CLI
# argument bug rather than a missing toolkit.
#
# The [ctk] extra pulls the header packages as wheels — a few hundred MB
# against ~6 GB for a -devel base image. It is installed AFTER the sync above
# because `uv sync` prunes anything it does not know about.
RUN uv pip install "cupy-cuda12x[ctk]"
ENV PATH="/app/.venv/bin:${PATH}" \
# ⚠️ THE SAME PRUNE TRAP, AT RUNTIME. studio/jobs.py shells the renderer
# out as a literal `uv run waterland ...` (cwd=WATERLAND_STUDIO_REPO), and
# that invocation carries no --extra flags. Left to itself uv would
# re-sync the project to its default extras and prune cupy right back out
# from under the venv built above. UV_NO_SYNC stops it re-syncing;
# UV_OFFLINE means that if the pin ever stops working the job fails LOUDLY
# instead of quietly rebuilding a slower environment.
UV_NO_SYNC=1 \
UV_OFFLINE=1 \
WATERLAND_STUDIO_REPO=/app \
WATERLAND_STUDIO_DATA=/data \
WATERLAND_STUDIO_BACKEND=cupy \
# PCI_BUS_ID index of the A6000 *as seen inside the container*. The
# compose file exposes exactly one GPU, so that GPU is index 0 here — even
# though it is index 1 on the host. Do not copy the host's value.
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES_TARGET=0
EXPOSE 8410
# uvicorn is invoked from the venv directly rather than through `uv run`: the
# server has no reason to re-enter uv, and one less uv invocation is one less
# chance to trip the prune above. The app is a FACTORY, hence --factory.
CMD ["uvicorn", "--factory", "waterland.studio.app:app", \
"--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8410"]
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# waterland-studio — watercolour render service (irv-ml1)
FastAPI + vanilla-JS SPA fronting the `waterland` CLI: upload an image, get a
watercolour plate and a painted-in reveal animation. Every job shells out to
the CLI, which runs a fluid simulation on the **A6000**.
- **Host:** irv-ml1 (10.100.79.3, WireGuard-only) · **Port:** 8410
- **URL:** http://10.100.79.3:8410/ · **Health:** `GET /api/health`
- **Source:** `gitea.phasefinal.com/vh/waterland`, tracking **`main`**
Handed over by `waterland-dev` on 2026-08-19, replacing a bare `nohup` that
would not have survived a reboot.
## Layout — the build context is deliberately outside this directory
| path | what |
|---|---|
| `/opt/waterland-studio/src` | checkout of `vh/waterland` @ `main` — the build context |
| `/opt/docker/compose/waterland-studio/` | `compose.yaml`, `Dockerfile`, `update.sh`, `.env` |
| volume `waterland-studio_waterland_studio_data` | job store (`/data`) |
| volume `waterland-studio_waterland_studio_kernels` | cupy JIT cache (`/root/.cupy`) |
**The checkout must NOT live under the compose directory.** `deploy-stack.sh`
rsyncs `stacks/<stack>/` with `--delete`, so a checkout kept beside
`compose.yaml` would be destroyed by the next deploy of this stack. The
Dockerfile is passed out-of-context to keep both trees clean.
Refresh source + rebuild:
```bash
ssh infra-ops@10.100.79.3 /opt/docker/compose/waterland-studio/update.sh
```
## Three landmines, all of them measured rather than guessed
**1. Both uv extras are load-bearing, at build AND at run.** `gpu` carries
`cupy-cuda12x`; a bare `uv sync` prunes it and the renderer silently drops to
the numpy path at ~21x the wall time — it does not error, it just gets slow.
Worse, `studio/jobs.py` shells the renderer out as a literal `uv run waterland`
with no `--extra` flags, so uv would re-sync at *runtime* and prune cupy right
back out. `UV_NO_SYNC=1` stops that; `UV_OFFLINE=1` means that if the pin ever
stops working the job fails loudly instead of quietly rebuilding a slower
environment.
**2. cupy needs CUDA *headers*, which the host never had to declare.** cupy
compiles kernels at runtime through NVRTC, which needs toolkit headers — not
just the driver and the runtime libs bundled in the wheel. On irv-ml1 a CUDA
toolkit is installed system-wide, so the bare `nohup` process found them by
accident; a slim image has none. Every render died 1.7s in with
```
RuntimeError: Failed to find CUDA headers.
```
printed *through argparse's usage banner*, which makes it read like a CLI
argument bug rather than a missing toolkit — that misdirection is the reason
this is written down. Fixed with `uv pip install "cupy-cuda12x[ctk]"`, which
pulls the headers as wheels: a few hundred MB against ~6 GB for a `-devel`
base image. It runs *after* `uv sync`, because sync prunes what it does not
know about.
**3. The GPU index inside the container is not the host's.** The app pins
`CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER=PCI_BUS_ID` and selects `CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES_TARGET`
(default `1`, correct on the host). Compose exposes exactly one GPU
(`device_ids: ["1"]`, the A6000 in Docker's ordering), so **inside** the
container that card is index **0** — hence `CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES_TARGET=0`.
Copying the host's value selects a device that does not exist. Device 0 on the
host is the 3090, which hosts the TTS zoo and must not be touched.
## Performance, measured on this host
| job | wall |
|---|---|
| 256², animation, **cold container** | 23.3 s |
| 256², animation, warm | 6.1 s |
| 256², plate only (`--codec none`) | 3.9 s |
| 512², plate only | 6.4 s |
Warm numbers beat the 7.4 s at 256² recorded against the bare-metal process, so
containerising cost nothing. The cold-vs-warm gap is **cupy's NVRTC compile**,
which is why `/root/.cupy` is a volume: verified by recreating the container
(fresh cache → 23.2 s first render) and then restarting it (populated cache →
6.0 s). Without that volume every restart makes the next user wait 4x and the
service merely looks slow.
## Operational constraints — from waterland-dev, not inferred
- **Serial by design. One replica, one card.** A render is 2045 s of near-full
GPU and the app runs a single worker thread. Two of these on the same A6000
would OOM or thrash. Throughput is a conversation about hardware, not replica
count.
- **No authentication, and it accepts arbitrary file uploads.** It must stay
inside the LAN / WireGuard boundary. Do **not** paper over this with a proxy
password — waterland-dev has offered to add a real auth layer if it ever
needs wider reach. Ask.
- Job store is scratch output, not source-of-truth: ~12 MB per animated job,
self-evicting at 40 retained jobs (`RETAIN` in `studio/jobs.py`), so steady
state is bounded around 500 MB. The 4 jobs from the bare-metal instance were
copied in at cutover.
- Internal render timeout is 480 s, which is why the healthcheck interval is
loose — an aggressive probe would measure queue depth rather than liveness.
## ⚠️ `update.sh` needs a credential this host does not have
The repo is not anonymously readable — an unauthenticated clone 403s. The
initial checkout was made with the operator's `vh` site-admin token passed
inline and **not persisted**: the on-disk remote is the plain URL and
`.git/config` holds no token (verified). Consequently `git fetch` in
`update.sh` will fail until the host has a credential of its own.
`claude-bot` 404s on `vh/waterland`, so it currently lacks read access. The
right fix is a read-only deploy token for this host, or granting `claude-bot`
read on the repo — **not** writing the site-admin token to disk on a GPU box.
Raised with waterland-dev; until then, re-run the authenticated clone by hand
to update.
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# waterland-studio — watercolour render service on irv-ml1, port 8410.
#
# FastAPI + vanilla-JS SPA fronting the waterland CLI: upload an image, get a
# watercolour plate and a painted-in reveal animation. Every job shells out to
# the CLI, which runs a fluid simulation on the A6000.
#
# Handed over by waterland-dev 2026-08-19, replacing a bare `nohup` that would
# not have survived a reboot.
#
# ⚠️ THE BUILD CONTEXT LIVES OUTSIDE THIS DIRECTORY, DELIBERATELY.
# /opt/waterland-studio/src is a checkout of vh/waterland @ main.
# `deploy-stack.sh` rsyncs this stack dir with --delete, so a checkout kept
# in here would be destroyed on the next deploy. Refresh it with ./update.sh.
#
# ⚠️ SERIAL BY DESIGN — ONE REPLICA, ONE CARD. A render is 20-45s of near-full
# GPU and the app runs a single worker thread. Two of these on the same A6000
# would OOM or thrash. Throughput is a conversation about hardware, not about
# replica count (waterland-dev, explicitly).
#
# ⚠️ NO AUTHENTICATION, AND IT ACCEPTS ARBITRARY FILE UPLOADS. It must stay
# inside the LAN / WireGuard boundary. Do NOT paper over this by putting it
# behind a proxy with a password — waterland-dev has offered to add a real
# auth layer if it ever needs wider reach. Ask, don't improvise.
name: waterland-studio
services:
waterland-studio:
build:
# Absolute paths: the context is the source checkout, the Dockerfile is
# this version-controlled one, and the two live in different trees.
context: /opt/waterland-studio/src
dockerfile: /opt/docker/compose/waterland-studio/Dockerfile
image: waterland-studio:local
container_name: ${WLS_CONTAINER:-waterland-studio}
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "${WLS_PORT:-8410}:8410"
volumes:
# Job store: uploaded sources plus rendered plates and animations.
# ~12 MB per job with an animation; the app self-evicts at 40 retained
# jobs (RETAIN in studio/jobs.py), so steady state is bounded ~500 MB.
# Scratch output, not source-of-truth — losing it costs a re-render.
- waterland_studio_data:/data
# cupy JIT kernel cache. Not optional for good behaviour: cupy compiles
# its kernels through NVRTC on first use, and measured on this host that
# cold compile costs ~17s — the first 256^2 render after a fresh
# container took 23.3s against 6.1s warm. Without this volume every
# restart makes the next user wait 4x, and it looks like the service is
# slow rather than warming up.
- waterland_studio_kernels:/root/.cupy
environment:
- WATERLAND_STUDIO_DATA=/data
- WATERLAND_STUDIO_REPO=/app
- WATERLAND_STUDIO_BACKEND=${WLS_BACKEND:-cupy}
# 0, not 1 — see the Dockerfile. Exactly one GPU is exposed below, so
# inside this container the A6000 is index 0 under PCI_BUS_ID ordering.
- CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES_TARGET=${WLS_CUDA_TARGET:-0}
deploy:
resources:
reservations:
devices:
- driver: nvidia
# "1" is the A6000 in DOCKER's device ordering, matching the
# comfyui stack on this host. Device 0 is the 3090, which hosts
# the TTS zoo and must not be touched.
device_ids: ["${WLS_GPU_ID:-1}"]
capabilities: [gpu]
healthcheck:
# /api/health touches no GPU and is safe to poll. The interval is
# deliberately loose: a render holds the GPU for 20-45s and the app's own
# job timeout is 480s, so an aggressive probe would be measuring queue
# depth rather than liveness.
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "python -c \"import urllib.request,sys; sys.exit(0 if urllib.request.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:8410/api/health', timeout=5).status==200 else 1)\""]
interval: 60s
timeout: 10s
retries: 3
start_period: 30s
networks:
- tnet
labels:
- homepage.group=AI - Image & Media
- homepage.name=Waterland Studio
- homepage.icon=mdi-watercolor
- homepage.description=Watercolour plate + reveal animation renderer (irv-ml1, A6000)
- homepage.href=http://10.100.79.3:${WLS_PORT:-8410}/
- homepage.siteMonitor=http://10.100.79.3:${WLS_PORT:-8410}/api/health
volumes:
waterland_studio_data: {}
waterland_studio_kernels: {}
networks:
tnet:
name: traefik-net
external: true
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Refresh the waterland checkout and rebuild the studio image.
#
# The checkout deliberately lives OUTSIDE the compose directory:
# deploy-stack.sh rsyncs stacks/<stack>/ with --delete, so a checkout kept
# beside compose.yaml would be deleted by the next deploy of this stack.
#
# Run ON irv-ml1:
# /opt/docker/compose/waterland-studio/update.sh
set -euo pipefail
SRC=/opt/waterland-studio/src
COMPOSE_DIR=/opt/docker/compose/waterland-studio
REPO_URL=${WATERLAND_REPO_URL:-https://gitea.phasefinal.com/vh/waterland.git}
REF=${WATERLAND_REF:-main}
if [ ! -d "$SRC/.git" ]; then
echo "no checkout at $SRC — clone it first:"
echo " sudo mkdir -p $(dirname "$SRC")"
echo " sudo git clone $REPO_URL $SRC"
exit 1
fi
echo "==> fetching $REF"
git -C "$SRC" fetch --prune origin
git -C "$SRC" checkout -q "$REF"
git -C "$SRC" reset --hard "origin/$REF"
echo "==> now at $(git -C "$SRC" rev-parse --short HEAD): $(git -C "$SRC" log -1 --format=%s)"
echo "==> rebuilding"
cd "$COMPOSE_DIR"
docker compose build --pull
echo "==> restarting"
docker compose up -d
echo "==> waiting for health"
for _ in $(seq 1 30); do
if curl -fsS -m 5 http://127.0.0.1:8410/api/health >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "healthy: $(curl -fsS -m 5 http://127.0.0.1:8410/api/health)"
exit 0
fi
sleep 3
done
echo "did not come healthy within 90s — check: docker compose logs --tail 50" >&2
exit 1