Deploy RAP to Azure Container Instances

[basplijnaer]

Purpose To deploy RAP to the Azure cloud we need to know if the Docker compose file can be used in its current form or if changes are required.

Tasks

• [ ] Deploy multi-container group to Azure Container Instances through Docker Compose: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/tutorial-docker-compose

• [x] Create issues for problems

[basplijnaer]

Findings

• 172 labels cannot be used in container instances

• 174 Volumes need a storage account and fileshare:

  volumes:
  rap4-data: 
  driver: azure_file
  driver_opts:
    share_name: a-team
    storage_account_name: stgampersand

• 173 docker.sock cannot be used in its current form

[basplijnaer]

Problem Getting the following error when trying to deploy to Azure Container Instances:

PS C:\Development\Ampersand\RAP> docker-compose up
[+] Running 0/1
 - Group rap  Error                                                                                                                                   37.2s 
containerinstance.ContainerGroupsClient#CreateOrUpdate: Failure sending request: StatusCode=0 -- Original Error: autorest/azure: Service returned an error. 
Status=<nil> Code="ServiceUnavailable" Message="The requested resource is not available in the location 'westeurope' at this moment. Please retry with a different resource request or in another location. Resource requested: '7' CPU '6.1' GB memory 'Linux' OS"

Azure Container instances has the following resource limits:

Region | Max CPU | Max Memory (GB) | VNET Max CPU | VNET Max Memory (GB) | Storage (GB) | GPU SKUs (preview) | Availability Zone support -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- West Europe | 4 | 16 | 4 | 16 | 50 | K80, P100, V100 | Y

Solution Set resource limits

 deploy:
    resources:
      limits:
        cpus: '0.5'
      reservations:
        cpus: '0.25'

[hanjoosten]

@basplijnaer , I have no trouble running above command. However, to build this image you need more memory than docker grants by default. I guess you need to check your memory limit.

[basplijnaer]

We are able to deploy the azure-docker-compose branch to Azure Container Instances using docker compose up. However, the containers are not yet usable as they keep restarting:

[basplijnaer]

For docker login azure use: docker login azure --tenant-id [tenant-id]