The Spot Event Plugin for Deadline allows Deadline to spin up fleets of render workers on AWS using EC2 Spot. Prerequisites You’ll need an AWS Account, and an AMI with Deadline Worker and rendering software installed. Here is a guide to installing Deadline Client on Linux if you don’t have one already. AWS configuration Create IAM User This section covers giving Deadline access and permissions it needs to manage resources in AWS.

Learn how to deploy your own render farm in this series of guides and blog posts about Thinkbox Deadline!

The purpose of the Deadline Portal is to provide a (relatively) easy way to expand a physical Deadline render farm into the cloud. This is often referred to as a hybrid render farm. Portal handles transferring of assets and managing of worker fleets. Where you should use it Need to burst quickly in the cloud. Small projects with < 500GB of assets (depending on internet connection). Don’t have an existing way of syncing assets to the cloud.

This guide focuses on Blender 3.6.1, however any version from 2.80 onwards should work. Getting the Deadline Add-on There are 2 ways to get the add-on

1. Download from Monitor Open the Deadline Monitor and in the top menu bar click Tools -> Download Integrated Submission Scripts… Select Blender check box, then in the ‘Download To’ field enter the path to where you want to download the submitters. Then Click ‘OK’

How to install Deadline Client on Linux using CLI

Getting started Which Linux Distro? This example uses Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, however any major distro should work. [!Note] Newer versions of Linux, like Ubuntu 22.04 no longer ship with libcrypto.so.1.1. This is a requirement for MongoDB 4.4, the database used by the Deadline Repository. If you use a newer Linux you’ll need to install the old libcrypto libraries. How much CPU & RAM? For 20-30 render nodes the server needs about 2 CPU cores and 4GB of ram