Pre-Deployment

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Steps to prepare deployment of AI Portal.

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1. Create an Azure Subscription

Follow these steps to create a Subscription in Azure: **https://how.dev/answers/how-to-create-a-microsoft-azure-subscription**

All AI Portal resources will be deployed into this Subscription.

For our resources, we require a paid (Microsoft Azure Plan, Enterprise Agreement, etc) subscription. Due to resource availability AI Portal will not work in free (Sponsored, Free Trial, Azure Student, etc) subscriptions.

1a. Once the Subscription has been created, be sure to request access to the specific models you may want to enable in your portal.

2. Register Resource Providers

Within your Azure Subscription, navigate to: Subscription → Settings → Resource Providers

Ensure that the following resources are registered within the subscription:

Resource Provider	Purpose
Microsoft.App	Application hosting (App Services)
Microsoft.CognitiveServices	AI/ML and language services
Microsoft.ContainerService	Kubernetes clusters (AKS)
Microsoft.Dashboard	Metrics Dashboard
Microsoft.DBforPostgreSQL	Database provisioning
Microsoft.Insights	Metrics Monitoring
Microsoft.KeyVault	Secret and credential management
Microsoft.ManagedIdentity	Identity and role-based access
Microsoft.Monitor	Workspace Monitoring
Microsoft.Network	Networking resources
Microsoft.OperationalInsights	Logging and monitoring
Microsoft.Storage	Storage account provisioning

3. Invite an external user to your Subscription

3a. First, add [email protected] as a guest user within your Subscription:

In the Azure Portal, go to Users → ”+ New user” → Invite external user
Enter the email: [email protected]
Enter the Display name: Multimodel Dev Team
Click and submit “Review + Invite”