Evaluation Deployment Guide for Azure

Step 1: Contact the RagaAI Sales Team for access to Virtual Machine Image

To initiate the deployment process, please reach out to our team with the following details:

• Azure tenant ID

• Azure Region

Step 2: Launch a VM from shared image

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.

2. Enter virtual machines in the search.

3. Under Services, select Virtual machines.

4. In the Virtual machines page, select Create and then Virtual machine. The Create a virtual machine page opens.

5. In the Basics tab, under Project details, make sure the correct subscription is selected and then choose to Create new resource group. Enter RagaCatalyst for the name.

   
6. Under Instance details, enter RagaCatalyst for the Virtual machine name, Leave the other values as default.

   
7. In the Image, click on See all images, It opens new window

   
8. In the new window left menu, select shared Images, and search for the Image, that you got in your confirmation email (your image name will be different as compared to the screenshot), after selecting you will be redirected to the previous page

   
9. Choose the VM type Standard_D8ps_v5 and leave the remaining options as default. This type has 8 vCPUs and 32 Gb memory.

10. Under Administrator account, select SSH public key. In Username enter azureuser.

11. For SSH public key source, leave the default of Generate new key pair, and then enter RagaKey for the Key pair name.

    
12. Under Inbound port rules > Public inbound ports, choose Allow selected ports and then select SSH (22) and HTTP (80) from the drop-down.

    
13. Click Advanced, in UserData enable the check box and insert the token provided on mail.
14. Leave the remaining defaults and then select the Review + create button at the bottom of the page.

15. On the Create a Virtual Machine page, you can see the details about the VM you are about to create. When you are ready, select Create.

16. When the Generate new key pair window opens, select Download private key and create the resource. Your key file will be downloaded as RagaKey.pem. Make sure you know where the .pem file was downloaded; you will need the path to it in the next step.
17. When the deployment is finished, select Go to the resource.

18. On the page for your new VM, select the public IP address and copy it to your clipboard.
19. Wait for at least 15 mins for the instance to be in running state.

20. 1. Note the public IP of the machine. Access the portal via http://<public_ip>

    2. It should render a login page

21. Please note that API should be available at

22. http://<public_ip>/api