Container runtime environments¶

Overview¶

Snowflake provides container runtime environments for both CPU and GPU compute. The container runtime is versioned, allowing you to choose when to upgrade to any new container release. When Snowflake releases a new container runtime version, it can include changes to Python or container packages, security patches, or other changes.

Each container runtime environment is versioned and corresponds to a Python version. For example, CPU Python 3.12 is a container runtime environment. The CPU Python 3.12 container runtime environment has versions such as 1.5.0, 1.5.1, and 1.6.0. The GPU Python 3.12 container runtime has versions such as 1.5.0, 1.5.1, and 1.6.0.

Container runtime environments use semantic versioning (https://semver.org/).