POC Mode

DFM Proof of Concept (POC) mode allows for “mimicking” a full federation deployment on your computer. It runs each DFM site as a separate process and directly uses NVIDIA Flare POC mode.

The poc command group manages the POC environment:

Starting POC Mode

# Start with specific federation
dfm poc start --federation my_federation

# Start in debug mode
dfm poc start --debug

# Prepare workspace only
dfm poc start --prepare-only

It is important to highlight, that DFM POC mode always simulates some federation. By default, the CLI command starts DFM POC with the provided example federation. It is assumed that users will directly specify their configured federation upon using this tool. See Configuration Management to learn more about configuring federations with DFM CLI.

Monitoring POC mode

Display aggregated logs when DFM is running in POC mode:

dfm poc logs

Check the current state of the POC environment:

dfm poc status --federation my_federation

Managing the POC Environment

Other useful POC commands:

# Wait for POC to be ready
dfm poc wait

# Stop POC environment
dfm poc stop

# Restart POC environment
dfm poc restart

# Clean up POC workspace
dfm poc cleanup