NeMo Customizer Prerequisites#

Microservice Setup Requirements and Environment Variables

Before starting, make sure you have:

  • Access to NeMo Customizer

  • The huggingface_hub Python package installed

  • (Optional) Weights & Biases account and API key for enhanced visualization

Set up environment variables:

# Set up environment variables
export CUSTOMIZER_BASE_URL="<your-customizer-service-url>"
export ENTITY_STORE_BASE_URL="<your-entity-store-url>"
export DATA_STORE_BASE_URL="<your-datastore-url>"
export NAMESPACE="default"
export DATASET_NAME="test-dataset"

# Hugging Face environment variables (for dataset/model file management)
export HF_ENDPOINT="${DATA_STORE_BASE_URL}/v1/hf"
export HF_TOKEN="dummy-unused-value"  # Or your actual HF token

# Optional monitoring
export WANDB_API_KEY="<your-wandb-api-key>"

Replace the placeholder values with your actual service URLs and credentials.