Azure ML Lesson 2

How to install all the tools in a nutshell.

A host running Ubuntu 22.04 is expected. If you have a Windows system or Mac, download Virtualbox and setup a VM or WSL2 with Ubuntu 22.04.

Anaconda/Miniconda must be installed. See here and here, respectively.

Run the following commands to install Azure CLI:

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

Configure the Azure CLI

az login

Install Azure ML CLI

az extension add -n ml -y

Create a Conda environment to work with Azure in. At this moment, there are problems with Python 3.9, so use Python 3.12.

conda create --name azure_ml -y python=3.12 pip
conda activate azure_ml

# Install linting, formatting and additional libraries
pip install flake8 black isort joblib azure-ai-ml azure-identity

You now have a Conda environment called azure_ml containing the AzureML SDK.

Install Visual Studio Code as shown here.

Once you've installed VS Code, configure its plugins and tell it to use the Python interpreter with the azure_ml environment.

• Run VS Code and install vscode-icons, python, Code Spell Checker and Azure Machine Learning extensions
• Go into Azure Machine Learning and log in. Check that you have access to your workspace.
• Install Flake8, Black formatter and isort Microsoft extensions.
• Select a Python interpreter
  • Python is an interpreted language, and in order to run Python code and get Python IntelliSense, you must tell VS Code which interpreter to use.
  • From within VS Code, select a Python 3 interpreter by opening the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and searching for: Python: Select Interpreter...
  • ... then select the environment named azure_ml.