Unable to setup public access to container instance

Question

Created a new container instance for deploying chromadb. Previously I used the Azure Portal UI to create a container instance but that UI didn't allow for ways to set a persistent file storage for the container. So I reverted to using a AZ CLI to create a new container instance. Here is the CLI command I used:

az container create \

  --resource-group EnterpriseChai-Dev \

  --name chroma-v2 \

  --image enterprisechai.azurecr.io/chromadb/chroma:latest \

  --ports 8000 \   

  --azure-file-volume-account-name stchroma \

  --azure-file-volume-account-key $STORAGE_KEY \

  --azure-file-volume-share-name stchromacishare \

  --azure-file-volume-mount-path /chromadb \

  --location eastus

The container was created, the file storage was mounted and chroma image was pulled. But the port configuration was NOT applied. I wanted to have a public access IP and Port 8000, but UI doesn't show what is the public IP and the port is also not shown.

So if I use the CLI, the storage is mounted (which is not possibly via the Azure portal UI) but then I run into this issue where the public IP and port is not being set.

Can someone help with this?

Answer 1

Hi,

Please add --ip-address public to the end of your az container create command, as shown below:

az container create --resource-group EnterpriseChai-Dev --name chroma-v2 --image enterprisechai.azurecr.io/chromadb/chroma:latest --ports 8000 --azure-file-volume-account-name stchroma --azure-file-volume-account-key $STORAGE_KEY --azure-file-volume-share-name stchromacishare --azure-file-volume-mount-path /chromadb --location eastus --ip-address public

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Thanks.

-TP