google-cloud/pr_155/en/containers/introduction.md

Introduction

Hugging Face Deep Learning Containers (DLCs) for Google Cloud are a set of Docker images for training and deploying Transformers, Sentence Transformers, and Diffusers models on Google Cloud Vertex AI and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

The Google-Cloud-Containers repository contains the container files for building Hugging Face-specific Deep Learning Containers (DLCs), examples on how to train and deploy models on Google Cloud. The containers are publicly maintained, updated and released periodically by Hugging Face and the Google Cloud Team and available for all Google Cloud Customers within the Google Cloud's Artifact Registry. For each supported combination of use-case (training, inference), accelerator type (CPU, GPU, TPU), and framework (PyTorch, TGI, TEI) containers are created.