Azure Deployment Steps using Start-Up Script

1. Deploy locally & verify working on localhost

• You will find that "en-core-web-md" will be missing & you will need to install this manually using "python -m spacy download en_core_web_md" while on your local machine.

2. Initalize a Linux App Service running Python
3. We will need to create a custom startup script to install the same packages during startup on Azure. | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/containers/how-to-configure-python#customize-startup-command

• I found it easiest to SSH into your container & run the following

...Commands...
cd site/
touch startup.sh
vi startup.sh

...SCRIPT...
#!/bin/sh
python -m spacy download en_core_web_md en
gunicorn --bind=0.0.0.0 --timeout 600 app:app

4. Add your startup command path from your configuration blade in Azure portal. "/home/site/startup.sh"

• Once saved the app service is expected to fail since spacy is a missing dependency & there is no app.py for gunicorn to reference.

5. Deploy using Local Git | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/deploy-local-git
6. Test your site! | Example: https://named-entity-extractor.azurewebsites.net

Repository Modifications

Files	Content
requirements.txt	Added requirement.txt in order for Azure to build the app with Oryx since it looks for a requirements.txt to build all dependencies

Named-Entity-Extractor

A simple Flask API for named entity extraction using spaCy Model