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Safe rollout for managed online endpoints using Python SDK v2 (preview).
Azure Machine Learning
Safe rollout for online endpoints using Python SDK v2 (preview).
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Safe rollout for managed online endpoints using Python SDK v2 (preview)

[!INCLUDE sdk v2]

Important

SDK v2 is currently in public preview. The preview version is provided without a service level agreement, and it's not recommended for production workloads. Certain features might not be supported or might have constrained capabilities. For more information, see Supplemental Terms of Use for Microsoft Azure Previews.

In this article, you learn how to deploy a new version of the model without causing any disruption. With blue-green deployment or safe rollout, an approach in which a new version of a web service is introduced to production by rolling out the change to a small subset of users/requests before rolling it out completely. This article assumes you're using online endpoints; for more information, see Azure Machine Learning endpoints.

In this article, you'll learn to:

  • Deploy a new online endpoint called "blue" that serves version 1 of the model.
  • Scale this deployment so that it can handle more requests.
  • Deploy version 2 of the model to an endpoint called "green" that accepts no live traffic.
  • Test the green deployment in isolation.
  • Send 10% of live traffic to the green deployment.
  • Fully cut-over all live traffic to the green deployment.
  • Delete the now-unused v1 blue deployment.

Prerequisites

  • If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin. Try the free or paid version of Azure Machine Learning today.
  • The Azure Machine Learning SDK v2 for Python.
  • You must have an Azure resource group, and you (or the service principal you use) must have Contributor access to it.
  • You must have an Azure Machine Learning workspace.
  • To deploy locally, you must install Docker Engine on your local computer. We highly recommend this option, so it's easier to debug issues.

Clone examples repository

To run the training examples, first clone the examples repository and change into the sdk directory:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azureml-examples
cd azureml-examples/sdk

Tip

Use --depth 1 to clone only the latest commit to the repository, which reduces time to complete the operation.

Connect to Azure Machine Learning workspace

The workspace is the top-level resource for Azure Machine Learning, providing a centralized place to work with all the artifacts you create when you use Azure Machine Learning. In this section, we'll connect to the workspace in which you'll perform deployment tasks.

  1. Import the required libraries:

    # import required libraries
from azure.ai.ml import MLClient
from azure.ai.ml.entities import (
    ManagedOnlineEndpoint,
    ManagedOnlineDeployment,
    Model,
    Environment,
    CodeConfiguration,
)
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

  2. Configure workspace details and get a handle to the workspace:

    To connect to a workspace, we need identifier parameters - a subscription, resource group and workspace name. We'll use these details in the MLClient from azure.ai.ml to get a handle to the required Azure Machine Learning workspace. This example uses the default Azure authentication.

    # enter details of your AML workspace
subscription_id = "<SUBSCRIPTION_ID>"
resource_group = "<RESOURCE_GROUP>"
workspace = "<AML_WORKSPACE_NAME>"
    # get a handle to the workspace
ml_client = MLClient(
    DefaultAzureCredential(), subscription_id, resource_group, workspace
)

Create online endpoint

Online endpoints are endpoints that are used for online (real-time) inferencing. Online endpoints contain deployments that are ready to receive data from clients and can send responses back in real time.

To create an online endpoint, we'll use ManagedOnlineEndpoint. This class allows user to configure the following key aspects:

  • name - Name of the endpoint. Needs to be unique at the Azure region level
  • auth_mode - The authentication method for the endpoint. Key-based authentication and Azure ML token-based authentication are supported. Key-based authentication doesn't expire but Azure ML token-based authentication does. Possible values are key or aml_token.
  • identity- The managed identity configuration for accessing Azure resources for endpoint provisioning and inference.
    • type- The type of managed identity. Azure Machine Learning supports system_assigned or user_assigned identity.
    • user_assigned_identities - List (array) of fully qualified resource IDs of the user-assigned identities. This property is required if identity.type is user_assigned.
  • description- Description of the endpoint.

  1. Configure the endpoint:

    # Creating a unique endpoint name with current datetime to avoid conflicts
import datetime

online_endpoint_name = "endpoint-" + datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%m%d%H%M%f")

# create an online endpoint
endpoint = ManagedOnlineEndpoint(
    name=online_endpoint_name,
    description="this is a sample online endpoint",
    auth_mode="key",
    tags={"foo": "bar"},
)

  2. Create the endpoint:

    Using the MLClient created earlier, we'll now create the Endpoint in the workspace. This command will start the endpoint creation and return a confirmation response while the endpoint creation continues.

    ml_client.begin_create_or_update(endpoint)

Create the 'blue' deployment

A deployment is a set of resources required for hosting the model that does the actual inferencing. We'll create a deployment for our endpoint using the ManagedOnlineDeployment class. This class allows user to configure the following key aspects.

Key aspects of deployment

  • name - Name of the deployment.
  • endpoint_name - Name of the endpoint to create the deployment under.
  • model - The model to use for the deployment. This value can be either a reference to an existing versioned model in the workspace or an inline model specification.
  • environment - The environment to use for the deployment. This value can be either a reference to an existing versioned environment in the workspace or an inline environment specification.
  • code_configuration - the configuration for the source code and scoring script
    • path- Path to the source code directory for scoring the model
    • scoring_script - Relative path to the scoring file in the source code directory
  • instance_type - The VM size to use for the deployment. For the list of supported sizes, see Managed online endpoints SKU list.
  • instance_count - The number of instances to use for the deployment

  1. Configure blue deployment:

    # create blue deployment
model = Model(path="../model-1/model/sklearn_regression_model.pkl")
env = Environment(
    conda_file="../model-1/environment/conda.yml",
    image="mcr.microsoft.com/azureml/openmpi3.1.2-ubuntu18.04:20210727.v1",
)

blue_deployment = ManagedOnlineDeployment(
    name="blue",
    endpoint_name=online_endpoint_name,
    model=model,
    environment=env,
    code_configuration=CodeConfiguration(
        code="../model-1/onlinescoring", scoring_script="score.py"
    ),
    instance_type="Standard_F2s_v2",
    instance_count=1,
)

  2. Create the deployment:

    Using the MLClient created earlier, we'll now create the deployment in the workspace. This command will start the deployment creation and return a confirmation response while the deployment creation continues.

    ml_client.begin_create_or_update(blue_deployment)
    # blue deployment takes 100 traffic
endpoint.traffic = {"blue": 100}
ml_client.begin_create_or_update(endpoint)

Test the endpoint with sample data

Using the MLClient created earlier, we'll get a handle to the endpoint. The endpoint can be invoked using the invoke command with the following parameters:

  • endpoint_name - Name of the endpoint
  • request_file - File with request data
  • deployment_name - Name of the specific deployment to test in an endpoint

We'll send a sample request using a json file.

# test the blue deployment with some sample data
ml_client.online_endpoints.invoke(
    endpoint_name=online_endpoint_name,
    deployment_name="blue",
    request_file="../model-1/sample-request.json",
)

Scale the deployment

Using the MLClient created earlier, we'll get a handle to the deployment. The deployment can be scaled by increasing or decreasing the instance_count.

# scale the deployment
blue_deployment = ml_client.online_deployments.get(
    name="blue", endpoint_name=online_endpoint_name
)
blue_deployment.instance_count = 2
ml_client.online_deployments.begin_create_or_update(blue_deployment)

Get endpoint details

# Get the details for online endpoint
endpoint = ml_client.online_endpoints.get(name=online_endpoint_name)

# existing traffic details
print(endpoint.traffic)

# Get the scoring URI
print(endpoint.scoring_uri)

Deploy a new model, but send no traffic yet

Create a new deployment named green:

# create green deployment
model2 = Model(path="../model-2/model/sklearn_regression_model.pkl")
env2 = Environment(
    conda_file="../model-2/environment/conda.yml",
    image="mcr.microsoft.com/azureml/openmpi3.1.2-ubuntu18.04:20210727.v1",
)

green_deployment = ManagedOnlineDeployment(
    name="green",
    endpoint_name=online_endpoint_name,
    model=model2,
    environment=env2,
    code_configuration=CodeConfiguration(
        code="../model-2/onlinescoring", scoring_script="score.py"
    ),
    instance_type="Standard_F2s_v2",
    instance_count=1,
)
# use MLClient to create green deployment
ml_client.begin_create_or_update(green_deployment)

Test the 'green' deployment

Though green has 0% of traffic allocated, you can still invoke the endpoint and deployment with json file.

ml_client.online_endpoints.invoke(
    endpoint_name=online_endpoint_name,
    deployment_name="green",
    request_file="../model-2/sample-request.json",
)

  1. Test the new deployment with a small percentage of live traffic:

    Once you've tested your green deployment, allocate a small percentage of traffic to it:

    endpoint.traffic = {"blue": 90, "green": 10}
ml_client.begin_create_or_update(endpoint)

    Now, your green deployment will receive 10% of requests.

  2. Send all traffic to your new deployment:

    Once you're satisfied that your green deployment is fully satisfactory, switch all traffic to it.

    endpoint.traffic = {"blue": 0, "green": 100}
ml_client.begin_create_or_update(endpoint)

  3. Remove the old deployment:

    ml_client.online_deployments.delete(name="blue", endpoint_name=online_endpoint_name)

Delete endpoint

ml_client.online_endpoints.begin_delete(name=online_endpoint_name)

Next steps