How to Deploy on Azure - ovokpus/MLOps-Learn GitHub Wiki

Before you start you need Microsoft account. If you do not have a microsoft account, you can sign up here

After creating an Microsoft account you can sign in for portal.azure.com

Azure Dashboard should like this:

For free Azure trial account click Start button.

Sign up form should like this:

After filling the form you need verify account with Credit or debit card. For credit card I've created virtual credit card and didn't have any issue for that. So I suggest to you same.

Free Azure trial account offers: $200 credit to use in your first 30 days.

These are free service you can check out for limits.

Azure-cli azure command line based service manager tool.

Azure-cli already in Debian and Ubuntu repository.

For installing

sudo apt-get install azure-cli

or if you want latest version of azure-cli you can add microsoft repository with this bash script.

curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash

sudo apt update
sudo apt install azure-cli

Import Microsoft repository key:

sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc

Create local azure-cli repository information:

echo -e "[azure-cli]
name=Azure CLI
baseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/azure-cli
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/azure-cli.repo

And install azure-cli with this commad.

sudo dnf install azure-cli

You can download this MSI downloader. Once you downloaded you can use azure-cli with Powershell or Windows Command Prompt.

You can also use Windows Terminal which is azure-cli built in. You can download here

if you have successfully installed the azure-cli tool:

az login

Azure-cli will ask you to log-in your microsoft account in your default browser.

az account show

This command will show you the account information if you have successfully logged in.

Resource group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure service. Like docker container registry, web applications and many azure services.

az account list-locations | grep -i name

This bash command lists all locations. You can choose which locations nearest you.

The name line should be locations input variable.

For example: East US 2 input name should be centralus

If you're using azure-cli on Windows Terminal this powershell command lists all locations.

az account list-locations | Select-String "name"

Output should be similar like above.

az group create --name {group_name} --location westeurope

Azure Container Registry allows you to build, store, and manage docker container images in a private registry for all types of container deployments.

az acr create --resource-group {group_name} --name {container_reg_name} --sku Basic

After --name tag you should choose unique for docker container registry name. We're going to use login information for docker container repository when we push local docker container to azure docker container repository.

If you have successfully created the container it's time to log in to the azure docker repository.

Before we start we need enable admin account for container registry.

az acr update --name {container_reg_name} --admin-enabled true

Now we can use login token for docker container repository.

token=$(az acr login --name {container_reg_name} --expose-token --output tsv --query accessToken)

The return of this command also gives us little hint for docker login.

WARNING: You can perform manual login using the provided access token below, for example: 'docker login loginServer -u 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 -p accessToken'

We passed through login token to token varible.

Now we can use token to docker login.

For that:

docker login {container_reg_name}.azurecr.io --username 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 --password $token

Now it's time push local images to azure.

docker images

This docker command lists your local images. First we need tag image for azure container registry.

For that:

sudo docker tag {container_name} {container_reg_name}.azurecr.io/midterm:v1

local container name > azure container registry name

Container should be exists local docker images.

docker images

Now you can see under repository column your azure container repository.

For pushing docker container:

docker push {container_reg_name}.azurecr.io/{container_name}

Before we turning docker image to Web service we need appservice plan

Appservice is specifying web service OS, Region and SKU.

az appservice plan create --name {appservice_name} --resource-group {group_name} --is-linux --sku FREE

az webapp create --resource-group {group_name} --plan {appservice_name} --name {web_app_name}  --deployment-container-image-name {container_reg_name}.azurecr.io/{container_name}:v1