A Calkit example project that runs one pipeline stage on another machine over SSH, and the rest locally.
The raw-data stage collects data in the py environment on a remote
host; plot then reads that data and makes a figure here.
Calkit moves the project to a workspace on that host, runs the stage there,
and brings the outputs back.
There isn't a separate setup step. Run the pipeline and Calkit asks for whatever is missing:
calkit run
In a terminal, that prompts for the host and user (saving them to .env),
offers to create an SSH key if you don't have one, offers to authorize this
machine on the host with ssh-copy-id, and offers to install Calkit there
if it's missing.
Nothing happens without you agreeing to it.
To check the setup without running anything, use:
calkit check env -n remote
Outside a terminal---in CI, say---nothing is prompted for, because there's nobody to answer. It fails with the exact commands to run instead.