Prepare Azure VM Setup

September 8, 2023 ยท View on GitHub

Before users in your team can deploy the solution using Azure VM, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Create an Azure Storage account in the target subscription.

  2. Create a publicly accessible container named vmscripts in the Azure Storage account created in step 1.

  3. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/AzureCosmosDB/VectorSearchAiAssistant.git

  4. Switch to the cognitive-search-vector branch:

    cd VectorSearchAiAssistant
git checkout cognitive-search-vector

  5. Upload the VMScriptExtension.ps1 script from the scripts folder to the vmscripts container created in step 2. This script is used by the Azure VM deployment script to install the required software on the VM.

  6. Open the vmdeploy.json file from the arm folder with the text editor of your choice. In line 219, update the value of the fileUris property to point to the VMScriptExtension.ps1 script uploaded in step 5.

  7. Save the changes to the vmdeploy script, commit them to the cognitive-search-vector branch, and push the changes to the remote repository.

    git commit -m "Updated VM extensions script for Azure VM deployment"
git push