Deployment

mold supports multiple deployment modes — from a single GPU machine to cloud GPU providers.

Remote Rendering

The simplest setup: run the server on a GPU host, generate from anywhere.

# On your GPU server
mold serve

# From your laptop
MOLD_HOST=http://gpu-server:7680 mold run "a cat"

Deployment Options

Method	Best For
Docker & RunPod	Cloud GPUs, RunPod pods
NixOS	NixOS systems, declarative setup
Systemd service	Any Linux with NVIDIA GPU

Systemd Service

A sample systemd unit is at contrib/mold-server.service:

cp contrib/mold-server.service ~/.config/systemd/user/
systemctl --user enable --now mold-server

Key settings:

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mold serve --port 7680 --bind 0.0.0.0
Environment=MOLD_LOG=info
# NixOS: uncomment for CUDA driver access
# Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/run/opengl-driver/lib