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Always giving 500 (no instances currently available), when trying to create a pod through api. - Runpod
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Runpod
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8mo ago
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Souvik
Always giving 500 (no instances currently available), when trying to create a pod through api.
anyone know what
's wrong in this
?
import requests
url
=
"
https://rest.runpod.io/v1/pods
"
payload
=
{
"allowedCudaVersions
"
:
[
"12
.1
"
]
,
"cloudType
"
:
"SECURE
"
,
"computeType
"
:
"GPU
"
,
"containerDiskInGb
"
: 20
,
"dockerStartCmd
"
:
[
"bash
"
,
"
-c
"
,
"apt update
&
& apt install
-y ffmpeg
&
& cd
/workspace
/GoKaptureHub
/apps
/gif
-generator
&
& source
.venv
/bin
/activate
&
& python3 worker
.py
; tail
-f
/dev
/null
"
]
,
"globalNetworking
"
: True
,
"gpuCount
"
: 1
,
"gpuTypeIds
"
:
[
"NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe
"
]
,
"gpuTypePriority
"
:
"availability
"
,
"imageName
"
:
"runpod
/
p
y
t
o
r
c
h
:2
.2
.0
-py3
.10
-cuda12
.1
.1
-devel
-ubuntu22
.04
"
,
"interruptible
"
: False
,
"locked
"
: False
,
"name
"
:
"TEST USING API
"
,
"networkVolumeId
"
:
"k7veh4j4n1
"
,
"ports
"
:
[
"8888
/http
"
,
"22
/tcp
"
]
,
"supportPublicIp
"
: False
,
"volumeMountPath
"
:
"
/workspace
"
,
"minDiskBandwidthMBps
"
: 123
,
"minDownloadMbps
"
: 123
,
"minRAMPerGPU
"
: 8
,
"minUploadMbps
"
: 123
}
headers
=
{
"Authorization
"
:
"Bearer test
_token
"
,
"Content
-Type
"
:
"application
/json
"
}
response
= requests
.post
(url
, json
=payload
, headers
=headers
)
print
(response
.status
_code
)
print
(response
.json
(
)
)
it is always giving
Status Code
: 500
Response
:
{
'error
'
:
'create pod
: There are no instances currently available
'
,
'status
'
: 500
}
although through website it
's always available
thanks
.
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