Creating deployment spaces

Create a deployment space to store your assets, deploy assets, and manage your deployments.

Required permissions: You must have one of these user permissions to create a space:

  • Manage deployment spaces
  • Create deployment spaces

Deployment spaces are not associated with projects. You can publish assets from multiple projects to a space, and you can deploy assets to more than one space. For example, you might have a test space for evaluating deployments, and a production space for deployments that you want to deploy in business applications.

To create a deployment space:

  1. From the navigation menu, select Deployments > New deployment space. Enter a name for your deployment space.

  2. Optional: Add a description and tags.

  3. Optional: Assign the space to a deployment stage. Deployment stages are used for MLOps, to manage access for assets in various stages of the AI lifecycle. They are also used in governance, for tracking assets. Choose from:

    • Development for assets under development. Assets that are tracked for governance are displayed in the Develop stage of their associated use case.
    • Testing for assets that are being validated. Assets that are tracked for governance are displayed in the Validate stage of their associated use case.
    • Production for assets in production. Assets that are tracked for governance are displayed in the Operate stage of their associated use case.

  4. Optional: Upload space assets, such as exported project or exported space. If the imported space is encrypted, you must enter the password.

    Tip: If you get an import error, clear your browser cookies and then try again.

  5. Click Create.

Viewing and managing deployment spaces

  • To view all deployment spaces that you can access, click Deployments on the navigation menu.
  • To view any of the details about the space after you create it, such as the associated service instance or storage ID, open your deployment space and then click the Manage tab.
  • Your space assets are stored in a directory of a pod that is associated with your space GUID number. To find your space GUID, open your deployment space, and click the Manage tab.

Learn more

To learn more about adding assets to a space and managing them, see Assets in deployment spaces.

To learn more about creating a space and accessing its details programmatically, see Notebook on managing spaces.

To learn more about handling spaces programmatically, see Python client or REST API.

Parent topic: Deployment spaces