Azure Marketplace Deployment Guide

Introduction

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for deploying a service on Azure using the Azure Marketplace.

2. Access Azure Marketplace

Navigate to the Azure Marketplace using this URL.

3. Start Deployment Process

Click the Get it Now button and fill out the form.
Read the Terms and click Continue.
Click Create button.

4. Configure Deployment Options

On the Create a virtual machine page, go to Basics tab and follow the steps below.

Project details
- Select Subscription and Resource group from dropdown menu.
- Or, you can also Create New resource group.

Instance details
- Provide a name in the Virtual machine name field.
- Select a Region from the dropdown menu.
- Image: Select Unstructured Customer Hosted API Hourly - x64 Gen2 (default)
- Size: Select VM size from dropdown menu. Refer to this page for Azure VM comparisons

Administrator account
- Authentication type: Select Password or SSH public key.
- Enter the credentials.

5. Set Up Load Balancer

Before you click Review + create button, go to Networking tab and follow the steps below.

Networking interface (required fields)
- Virtual network: Click Create new link or select a Virtual network from dropdown menu, if you have created one. Refer to Quickstart: Use the Azure portal to create a virtual network.
- Subnet: Click Manage subnet configuration link or select a subnet from dropdown menu, if you have created one. Refer to Add, change, or delete a virtual network subnet
- Configure network security group: Click Create new link or select a security group from dropdown menu, if you have created one. Refer to Create, change, or delete a network security group.
Load balancing
- Load balancing option: Select Azure load balancer
- Select a load balancer: If you have created a load balancer, select from dropdown menu, or click Create a load balancer and fill out the following fields in the pop-up window.
  
  Enter Load balancer name
  
  Type: Select Public or Internal
  
  Protococl: Select TCP or UDP
  
  Port and Backend Port: Set to port 80

6. Finalize and Deploy

Click Review + Create.
Wait for validation.
Click Create.

7. Post-Deployment Steps

Go to the Virtual Machine from Azure console.
Retrieve the Load balancer public IP address
The deployed endpoint is http://<load-balancer-public-IP-address>/general/v0/general

7. Verification and Testing

Navigate to the public IP with the specified path for documentation and API testing.
Perform API testing with curl commands.

curl -q -X POST http://<you-IP-address>/general/v0/general
     -H 'accept: application/json'
     -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data'
     -F files=@<<FILENAME>>
     -o <<PATH/OUTPUT>>.json