Azure AI Foundry Projects Hub Girish Uppal

Azure AI Foundry – Project and Hub

 

Azure AI Foundry has everything you need to build, customize, host, execute, deploy and manage AI related applications

Azure AI Studio is now Azure AI Foundry portal

Projects

  • Project is an organizational container with tools for AI customization and orchestration
  • Projects are easy to manage containers for work
  • Azure AI Foundry projects is a place where you do most of development work
  • Deploying a model involves selection of a Project

When a Project is configured following resources get provisioned in the backend:

  • Subscription
  • Resource Group
  • Location
  • Hub
  • Data storage
  • Public network access
 
These are the list of Azure resource which gets provisioned to build Azure AI solutions:
 
  • Azure AI hub
  • Azure AI services
  • Key vault
  • Storage account
  • Azure AI Project
  • Recovery services vault
Hub
 
  • Hubs provide environment for team to collaborate and organise work
  • A hub is a place where you can manage everything your AI project needs like resources, security etc.
  • Helps IT admin to centrally setup security settings and governance usage and costs
  • Create hub from Azure portal or Azure AI Foundry portal
  • Projects can only be created from a hub
  • Hub can also be created using a template (Bicep / Terraform)
  • You must have Owner or Contributor role to create a new hub
  • Deleting a hub deletes all the associated projects

These resources are presented in a screen while creating hub:

  • Azure AI services
  • Storage account
  • Key vault (optional)
  • Application insights (optional)
  • Container registry (optional)