Getting started with the Bodo Platform

This page provides a quick start guide to the Bodo platform and explains its important concepts briefly. We strongly recommend reading this page before getting started with the Bodo platform.

Important

You need to have a Bodo account to use the Bodo platform. If you don't have one, you can sign up on the AWS marketplace. For more details, see Bodo Platform Setup Guide.

Basic Terminology

Notebooks

A Notebook is a simple instances of a JupyterLab Server. You can use a notebook to navigate the files in your workspace, define and execute your workflows on the clusters, etc.

Clusters

A Cluster provides your notebooks with necessary compute resources. Each cluster is tied to a specific Bodo version. A cluster also has additional configuration parameters such as the number of instances, auto-pause duration, etc. You can read more about creating a cluster here.

Workspaces

Workspaces are a basic unit of organization on Bodo platform. You can think of a workspace as a directory on a UNIX file system. Each Workspace contains zero or more Notebooks, Clusters, etc.

Setup the Bodo Platform

1. Follow the Bodo Platform Setup Guide.

If you sign up for Bodo through the AWS marketplace, you get a 14-day free trial. For the duration of your trial, you will only be charged for the underlying AWS resources created by your activity on the Bodo Platform. After the trial expires you will be charged according to our pay-as-you-go pricing

Bodo Dashboard

1. Once your cloud config has been created navigate to the Workspaces tab and click the Create Workspace button in the top right corner. Once your workspace has finished creating, you will be able to enter it.

Once inside the Workspace, navigate to the Notebooks tab.

That’s it, you’re all set to experience Bodo. Follow along one of our tutorials or go through the curated list of bodo-examples. See bodo-examples for a set of notebooks ready to be run in your free trial environment.