sagemaker-training

What it is and what it does

SageMaker Training Toolkit is a library that bridges custom training code and Amazon SageMaker's containerized training infrastructure. It runs inside a Docker image and handles the plumbing between SageMaker's training job orchestration and your training script—reading hyperparameters, environment variables, input channels, and model output paths from SageMaker's standard locations, then executing your entry point with the correct arguments and environment.

You write a training script (Python or shell), package it in a Dockerfile with this library, and push the image to ECR or run it locally. When SageMaker launches a training job with that image, the toolkit automatically exposes training data paths, hyperparameters, and system info as environment variables and command-line arguments, then runs your script. It's designed for teams building custom training containers that need to integrate with SageMaker's managed training service rather than using pre-built framework images.

Use it for

• Build a custom training container for a proprietary ML framework or training pipeline not covered by SageMaker's pre-built images.
• Pass hyperparameters and input data channels from SageMaker training jobs into your training script without manual environment parsing.
• Create a Docker image that reads training data from S3 via SageMaker channels and writes trained models to the correct output directory.
• Execute shell or Python entry points with automatic argument and environment variable injection from SageMaker's hyperparameters.json and inputdataconfig.json.
• Run training jobs locally using Docker before deploying to SageMaker's managed infrastructure.

Worth the install?

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Install

sagemaker-training on PyPI

Before you install

High install friction due to source distribution only. Package is aging (326 days since release) but maintained; last commit 2026-01-16. No runtime dependencies, but requires Docker and SageMaker integration context to be useful.

Requires Docker and SageMaker infrastructure; training script must be located at /opt/ml/code; intended for use within SageMaker training jobs, not standalone Python environments.

License in practice

Licensed under Apache License 2.0 (permissive). Safe for commercial and open-source use with standard attribution requirements.

Quickstart

# In Dockerfile:
RUN pip install sagemaker-training
COPY train.py /opt/ml/code/train.py
ENV SAGEMAKER_PROGRAM train.py

# In training script:
from sagemaker_training import environment, entry_point
env = environment.Environment()
args = env.to_cmd_args()
entry_point.run(uri=env.module_dir, user_entry_point=env.user_entry_point, args=args, env_vars=env.to_env_vars())

Package facts

Evidence: sagemaker_training-5.1.1.tar.gz

Tags

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