Taints and Tolerates

Taints are applied to Agents to repel certain workloads unless they explicitly tolerate the taint. This feature is useful for reserving specialized hardware or ensuring certain workloads only run on specific Agents.

Practical Examples

1. Specialized Hardware:

   • Taint: An Agent with a high-end GPU might have a taint:

     expensive-gpu=true 

   • Usage: To run on this Agent, a session must specify:

     --tolerates expensive-gpu=true 

2. Compliance Requirements:

   • Taint: Agents meeting certain compliance standards might have a taint:

     hipaa-compliant=required

   • Usage: Applications handling sensitive medical data would use:

     --tolerates hipaa-compliant=required

3. Experimental Features:

   • Taint: Agents running beta software might have a taint:

     beta-features=true

   • Usage: Developers testing new features would use:

     --tolerates beta-features=true

Example Commands

• Setting a taint on an Agent:

  juice agent run --taints expensive-gpu=true 

• Creating a session that tolerates the taint:

  juice run --tolerates expensive-gpu=true my_resource_intensive_app.py