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title: Personal laptops
version: EN
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Integrating your Mac or Linux machine to VESSL allows you to use your personal machines as a Kubernetes-backed single-node cluster and optimize your laptop for ML.
* Launch training jobs in seconds on VESSL's easy-to-use web interface or CLI, without writing YAML or scrappy scripts.
* Build a baseline model on your laptop and transition seamlessly to VESSL Cloud to scale your model.
* Keep track of your hardware and runtime environments together with `vessl.log`.
VESSL Clusters' single-line CLI command automatically checks, installs, and configures all dependencies such as Kubernetes, and connects your laptop to VESSL.
## Step-by-step Guide
<Warning>There is an ongoing [🔗 issue related to Kubernetes hostname](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/71140#issue-381687745) containing capital letters. Please make sure your machine's hostname is in lowercase. </Warning>
### (1) Prerequisites
You should first have **Docker**, **Helm**, and **VESSL SDK** installed on your machine. 
#### Install Docker and Helm
Install Docker and Helm. If you are on Mac and have Homebrew installed, the easiest way is to `brew install`. Check out the [🔗 Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) and [🔗 Helm](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/) installation guides for more details. 
```bash
brew install docker
```
```bash
brew install helm
```
<Note>You should have Docker running in the background with your [account](https://hub.docker.com/signup) logged in while using your laptop with VESSL Clusters. </Note>
#### **Set up the VESSL environment**
Set up a VESSL environment on your laptop and grant access. Refer to our docs on VESSL Client for more detailed setup guides.
```bash
pip install vessl
```
```bash
vessl configure
```
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### (2) VESSL integration
The following single-line command connects your Mac. 
```
vessl cluster create --name '[CLUSTER_NAME_HERE]' --mode single
```
The most common flags used with `vessl cluster create` commands are as follows. Check out our docs on VESSL CLI for additional flags.
* `--name` — Define your cluster name
* `--mode single` — Specifies that are installing a single-node cluster.  
* `--help` — See additional command options. 
The command will automatically check dependencies and ask you to install Kubernetes. This process will take a few minutes. Proceed by entering `y`. 
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If you have Kubernetes installed on your machine, the command will then ask you to install VESSL agent on the Kubernetes cluster. Enter `y` and proceed.
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By this point, you have successfully completed the integration.
### (3) Confirm integration
Confirm your integration using the `list` command which returns all the clusters available in your Organization. 
```bash
vessl cluster list
```
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Finally, try running a training job on your laptop. Your first run may take a few minutes to get the Docker images installed on your device.
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<Note>Windows support for single-node cluster integration is currently in beta. Cluster usage and status monitoring may be limited for Windows machines. </Note> |