If you need to know the basics of how to start a pod, you can check out this guide for starting a disco diffusion pod. All you need to change is to run the stable diffusion template rather than the disco diffusion one. The official RunPod updated template is the one that has the RunPod logo on it!
Official Stable Diffusion Template Link
Please note that it does take about 5 minutes for everything in the GUI to load up and you'll probably get a 502 error until it's done initializing. After it's done loading, you should be able to click on the connect to HTTP port 3000 to connect to your UI!
Here's an example of a lighthouse that was generated using the UI in 6.68s
Check out some of the wonderful guides our users have created for us:
Aitrepreneur's channel ( https://www.youtube.com/c/Aitrepreneur )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgRiZzwSdXg
Arki's written guides:
https://stablediffusionguides.carrd.co/#
Credit to https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion/ for the amazing UI. We just automated the install on RunPod :)
Edit* we now use this fork: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui and the UI looks slightly different!