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📘 Tutorial run-comfyui-wan

  • This tutorial reflects my own workflow and experience on RunPod.
  • Always consult the excellent official runpod documentation.

🚀 Starting a Pod

🧩 Choose a Template

t2v template

Example: 👉 WAN 2.2 T2V (lightx2v)

Steps:

  1. Choose a GPU.
  2. Edit template settings if needed.
  3. Enable volume encryption if desired.
  4. Click Deploy On-Demand.

📜 Viewing System Logs

deployment start

  • Go to Logs.
  • Loading takes 9–15 minutes depending on region.
  • If the image doesn’t begin downloading after 1 minute, delete and redeploy in another region.

Ends with (example):

Digest: sha256:2b56bdd14df7af0dae7f9bd7978be9e61d791359f5ea65eedd65dcd2e16752fc
Status: Image is up to date for ls250824/run-comfyui-wan:19112025

🐳 Viewing Container Logs

ℹ️ Pod run-comfyui-wan started
ℹ️ Wait until the message 🎉 Provisioning done, ready to create AI content 🎉

When you see:

final message

→ Your pod is ready.

🔌 Connecting to Your Pod

Docs

Possible http services

⚠️ Not ready – Make sure your service is running!

Try to Connect with the pod-id and the port number to the proxy. You can find the url’s at the end of the log file.

  • ComfyUI: https:<pod-id>-8188.proxy.runpod.net/
  • Code-Server: https:<pod-id>-9000.proxy.runpod.net/

🎨 ComfyUI

  1. Select tab Connect → ComfyUI
  2. Set username/password
  3. Load a workflow
  4. Press Run
  5. Monitor GPU/RAM via Telemetry

Select Workflow template (use wrapper if deployed on A40)

Select number frames, size , prompt and offload

⚠️ ComfyUI's screen remains blank

  • Wait one minute and try again.
  • Restart your browser and/or clear cache.
  • Try with another browser (brave, chrome, edge).

💻 Web Terminal

Web Terminal

  • Select tab Connect
  • Enable web terminal
  • Provides terminal access directly in your browser.

🧑‍💻 Code-Server Login

Login without password variable set

No "PASSWORD" set

  • Copy the password displayed at the end of the container log file of the Runpod console or open the web terminal and enter.
cat /root/.config/code-server/config.yaml

Copy the password → log in via the Code-Server service on tab Connect.

Information in pod available

Code-Server

⚠️ Code-Server's screen remains blank

  • Wait one minute and try again.
  • Restart your browser and/or clear cache.
  • Try another browser (brave, chrome, edge).

"PASSWORD" set as env in Runpod template

Log in via the Code-Server service on tab Connect.

🔐 Secrets

Docs

Useful secrets:

  • PASSWORD
  • CIVITAI_TOKEN
  • HF_TOKEN

📥 Downloading Models and LoRAs

From web terminal or Code-Server.

🧩 CivitAI

If no "CIVITAI_TOKEN" was set, create and use a free token from the civitai website.

Batch download

export CIVITAI_TOKEN="xxxxx"
civitai “<download-link-on-civitai>” /workspace/ComfyUI/models/<directory>
civitai --file batch.txt

Download for example CivitAI

civitai "https://civitai.com/api/download/models/2377549?type=Model&format=SafeTensor" /workspace/ComfyUI/models/loras/
civitai "https://civitai.com/api/download/models/2377566?type=Model&format=SafeTensor" /workspace/ComfyUI/models/loras/

Refresh

Refresh ComfyUI using pressing key r.

☁️ HuggingFace

"HF_TOKEN" is mandatory but needed for gated sites or upload.

Login:

hf auth login --token xxxxx

or set token:

export HF_TOKEN="xxxxx"

Download example from Huggingface.

hf download ricecake/wan21NSFWClipVisionH_v10 wan21NSFWClipVisionH_v10.safetensors --local-dir /workspace/ComfyUI/models/clip_vision

Refresh ComfyUI pressing key r.

🧩 ComfyUI-manager

  • Topbar or menu

manage_extensions

🧩 Restart pod

  • ⚠️ To restart ComfyUI restart the pod from runpod’s console (no information loss).

Restart_pod

🧩 Stop and restart a pod

  • No information loss as ComfyUI is copied to the /workspace volume.
  • Use this option to pause your pod.

⚠️ Be aware that it is possible that no GPU is available when you restart the pod.

  • Before stopping the pod copy your creations to cloud/local.
  • You can still access to pod from the console (0.5 vCPU and little memory).

🔄 Uploading & Downloading Files

☁️ Cloud Sync

Free dropbox

Cloud sync

  • Reliable and fast upload and download for large files.
  • Go to Dropbox developers
  • Create an app to connect with runpod.io.

📦 runpodctl

Speed

  • Fine for downloading files from your pod.
  • Problematic for uploading large files to your pod with slow connections (timeouts).
  • Perfect for transfering files between pods.

Installation

  • You need to install a client on your local computer.
  • You do not need an api key to upload/download to/from your pod.

🔧 Advanced Features

🔐 SSH / SCP / SFTP

Docs.

Key generation

  • Linux has ssh-keygen already installed to generate keys.
  • Windows install Git to get ssh-keygen.
  • Put your public key on runpod.io keep your private key on your local computer.

Apps.

🔑 RunPod API

Useful when the web console is out (examples are outages from AWS and Cloudflare).

Using runpod.io API

  • Docs.
  • Install with "sudo apt install curl" on Ubuntu.
curl --request GET \
  --url https://rest.runpod.io/v1/pods \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <api-key>'

curl --request POST \
  --url https://rest.runpod.io/v1/pods/{podId}/stop \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <api-key>'

curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://rest.runpod.io/v1/pods/{podId} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <api-key>'

Using runpodctl to start/stop your pod with your api key.

  • Docs.
  • Install client on local computer.
  • Use Shell/PowerShell or Bash.
runpodctl config --apiKey <YOUR_API_KEY>

runpodctl get pod --allfields

runpodctl stop pod <pod_id>

runpodctl remove pod <pod_id>