Managing environments (Watson Studio)

You can perform management tasks for environments, such as, creating or customizing an environment template, stopping runtimes, and promoting environments to a deployment space. You must have the Admin role or Editor in a project.

Changing the environment of a notebook

You can switch environments for different reasons, for example, you can:

Select an environment with more processing power or more RAM
Change from using an environment without Spark to a Spark environment

You can only change the environment of a notebook if the notebook is unlocked. You can change the environment:

From the notebook opened in edit mode:
1. Save your notebook changes.
2. Click the Notebook Info icon () from the notebook toolbar and then click Environment.
3. Select another template with the compute power and memory capacity from the list.
4. Select Change environment.
  This stops the active runtime and starts the newly selected environment.
From the Assets page of your project:
1. Select the notebook in the Notebooks section, click Actions > Change Environment and select another environment. The kernel must be stopped before you can change the environment. This new runtime environment will be instantiated the next time the notebook is opened for editing.

Parent topic: Environments