Running a containerized application

The easiest way to understand how to run a containerized application is to see an example. Let’s convert the example from the previous section into a containerized application.

import fal
from fal.container import ContainerImage
from fal.toolkit import Image, optimize

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

dockerfile_str = """
FROM python:3.11

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y ffmpeg
RUN pip install "accelerate" "transformers>=4.30.2" "diffusers>=0.26" "torch>=2.2.0"
"""


class Input(BaseModel):
    prompt: str = Field(
        description="The prompt to generate an image from.",
        examples=[
            "A cinematic shot of a baby racoon wearing an intricate italian priest robe.",
        ],
    )


class Output(BaseModel):
    image: Image = Field(
        description="The generated image.",
    )


class FalModel(
    fal.App,
    image=ContainerImage.from_dockerfile_str(dockerfile_str),
    kind="container",
  ):
    machine_type = "GPU"

    def setup(self) -> None:
        import torch
        from diffusers import AutoPipelineForText2Image

        # Load SDXL
        self.pipeline = AutoPipelineForText2Image.from_pretrained(
            "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
            torch_dtype=torch.float16,
            variant="fp16",
        )
        self.pipeline.to("cuda")

        # Apply fal's spatial optimizer to the pipeline.
        self.pipeline.unet = optimize(self.pipeline.unet)
        self.pipeline.vae = optimize(self.pipeline.vae)

        # Warm up the model.
        self.pipeline(
            prompt="a cat",
            num_inference_steps=30,
        )

    @fal.endpoint("/")
    def text_to_image(self, input: Input) -> Output:
        result = self.pipeline(
            prompt=input.prompt,
            num_inference_steps=30,
        )
        [image] = result.images
        return Output(image=Image.from_pil(image))

Voila! 🎉 The highlighted changes are the only modifications you need to make; the rest remains your familiar fal application.

Private docker registries

To use private docker registries, you need to provide registry credentials like so:

class FalModel(
    fal.App,
    kind="container",
    image=ContainerImage.from_dockerfile_str(
        "FROM myuser/image:tag",
        registries={
            "https://index.docker.io/v1/": {
                "username": "myuser",
                "password": "$DOCKERHUB_TOKEN",  # use `fal secrets set` first to create this secret
            },
        },
    ),
)
    ...