Using custom images in a deployment

The Open Autonomy framework uses up to 6 different Docker images when building an AI agent deployment with the command autonomy deploy build. Some of these images are for testing purposes and they are only included if indicated explicitly.

Images used in production and testing

valory/open-autonomy

Base image that contains all the required Python packages and a virtual environment required to deploy an agent instance. The deployment builder will use valory/open-autonomy as the name and the current version of the framework as the version tag. You can change the name and the version tag of the image by exporting the environment variables AUTONOMY_IMAGE_NAME and AUTONOMY_IMAGE_VERSION, respectively.

valory/oar-<author>/<agent_package>:<package_hash>

This image extends the base image valory/open-autonomy. It contains the agent blueprint package for an AI agent and a deployment environment for the same agent blueprint. This image is built through the autonomy build-image command.

valory/open-autonomy-tendermint

Defines a Tendermint node in the deployment setup. The deployment builder will use valory/open-autonomy-tendermint as the name and the current version of the framework as the version tag. You can change the name and the version tag of the image by exporting the environment variables TENDERMINT_IMAGE_NAME and TENDERMINT_IMAGE_VERSION, respectively.

Images used in testing only

valory/open-autonomy-hardhat

Base image that contains a pre-configured Hardhat node which can be used as a test blockchain for testing AI agents locally and running end-to-end tests for the agent blueprint packages.

valory/autonolas-registries

This image extends the base image valory/open-autonomy-hardhat. It comes with the Autonolas Protocol registry contracts pre-deployed. The deployment builder will use valory/open-autonomy-hardhat as the name and latest as the version tag. You can change the name and the version tag of the image by exporting the environment variables HARDHAT_IMAGE_NAME and HARDHAT_IMAGE_VERSION, respectively, to valory/autonolas-registries:latest.

Important

This image is only included if explicitly indicated through the flag --use-hardhat when building the AI agent deployment (autonomy deploy build command).

This image should only be used when working with the dev mode.

If you require specific custom contracts to test your AI agent, read the guide to include custom contracts.

valory/open-acn-node

Defines an ACN node in the deployment setup, which can be used for direct agent to agent communication. The deployment builder will use valory/open-acn-node as the name and latest as the version tag. You can change the name and the version tag of the image by exporting the environment variables ACN_IMAGE_NAME and ACN_IMAGE_VERSION, respectively.

Important

This image is only included if explicitly indicated through the flag --use-acn when building the AI agent deployment (autonomy deploy build command).

This image should only be used when working with the dev mode.