Deploying Apps to Cornserve and Invoking Them

Once you've written your app, you can deploy it to Cornserve. The current deployment process is as follows:

1. Save the app code in a single Python file (e.g., image_chat.py).
2. Register & deploy the app to the Cornserve Gateway for validation and deployment:

   export CORNSERVE_GATEWAY_URL=[...]
   cornserve register image_chat.py
   

3. When validation succeeds, the Cornserve Gateway will deploy the app and all its subtasks on the Cornserve data plane, and the cornserve CLI invocation will return with the app's ID.
4. Finally, you can send requests to the Cornserve Gateway with your choice of HTTP client.

   response = requests.post(
       f"{CORNSERVE_GATEWAY_URL}/app/invoke/{APP_ID}",
       json={
           "request_data": {
               "image_url": "https://example.com/image.jpg",
               "prompt": "Describe the image.",
           }
       },
   )
   

   Notice that what comes within the "request_data" key is the JSON representation of your Request class defined in our previous example.

Next Steps

To dive deeper into the architecture of Cornserve, check out our architecture guide.