Control plane UI
As a user, you most likely access `dstack` using its CLI. At the same time, the `dstack` server hosts a control plane that offers a wide range of functionality. It orchestrates cloud infrastructure, manages the state of resources, checks access, and much more.
Previously, managing projects and users was only possible via the API. The latest `dstack` update introduces a full-fledged web-based user interface, which you can now access on the same port where the server is hosted.
<img width="750" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b19fc3ce-321b-483a-94c6-2e5a65c7f62f">
The user interface allows you to configure projects, users, their permissions, manage resources and workloads, and much more.
To learn more about how to manage projects, users, and their permissions, check out the [Projects](https://dstack.ai/docs/concepts/projects/) page.
Environment variables interpolation
Previously, it wasn't possible to use environment variables to configure credentials for a private Docker registry. With this update, you can now use the following interpolation syntax to avoid hardcoding credentials in the configuration.
yaml
type: dev-environment
name: train
env:
- DOCKER_USER
- DOCKER_USERPASSWORD
image: dstackai/base:py3.10-0.4-cuda-12.1
registry_auth:
username: ${{ env.DOCKER_USER }}
password: ${{ env.DOCKER_USERPASSWORD }}
Network interfaces for port forwarding
When you run a dev environment or a task with `dstack apply`, it automatically forwards the remote ports to localhost. However, these ports are, by default, bound to `127.0.0.1`. If you'd like to make a port available on an arbitrary host, you can now specify the host using the `--host` option.
For example, this command will make the port available on all network interfaces:
dstack apply --host 0.0.0.0 -f my-task.dstack.yml
Full changelog
* [Feature] Add `--host HOST` arg to `dstack apply` command by un-def in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1531
* [Feature] Interpolate env in registry_auth by r4victor in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1540
* [Bugfix] Ensure `dstack` CLI exits with non-zero exit code on errors by r4victor in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1529
* [Bugfix] Fix `http` services running on 443 in the logs by r4victor in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1522
* [Bugfix] Forece the use of the `root` user in custom Docker images by jvstme in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1538
* [Bugfix] Update Docker to 27.1.1 in `dstack` VM images by jvstme in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1536
* [Feature] Add control plane UI by olgenn in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1524
* [Docs] Document the `nvcc` property by peterschmidt85 in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1526
* [Docs] Document `env` for on-prem fleets 1527 by peterschmidt85 in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1530
* [Interna] Fix unlocking on transaction rollback by r4victor in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1537
* [Internal] Bump base `dstack` image version to `0.5` by jvstme in https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/pull/1541
**All changes**: https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/compare/0.18.9...0.18.10