DIRAC Pilot running on Microsoft Azure

Quick Start

Azure Account

A Microsoft account is needed to try Azure. Go to the Azure Portal and create a free trial account.

Azure Client

Install the client for Azure, login

$ azure login

And change mode to Azure Resource Manager:

$ azure config mode arm

Create the resources required

$ cd DeployResourceGroup && bash deployCLI.sh

Deploy a VM

Deploy the VM:

 $ azure group deployment create -f azuredeploy.json -e azuredeploy.parameters.json -g <Resource Group> -n <VM Name>

### Run the DIRAC pilot on the VM

Find the IP of the deployed VM

$ azure vm list-ip-address

Copy the DIRAC wrapper to the VM

$ scp pilot_wrapper.py dirac@<IP>:~/

Run the wrapper inside the VM:

$ ssh dirac@<ip> bash ~/pilot_wrapper.py

Wiki and Azure documentation

More detailed information can be found in the Wiki.

You can look at the Azure Documentation for a complete description of all the capacities of Azure.