Custom Argument pass to Docker Container Azure ML inference

Question

Hello Team,

I'm trying to pass the arguments to Azure ML docker. I have created an environment like this.

env = Environment.from_conda_specification(name='pytorch-1.6-gpu', file_path='curated_env/conda_dependencies.yml' )

Am I passing the arguments correct?

DOCKER_ARGUMENTS = ["--shm-size","32G"]  # increase shared memory
env.docker.arguments = DOCKER_ARGUMENTS

The main goal of this project is to deploy a model on the AKS inference cluster. I have successfully deployed the model. When I try to get predictions from the model I got this error

It is possible that data loaders workers are out of shared memory. Please try to raise your shared memory limit

How can I do that if that's not the correct way to pass arguments?

Answer 1

@khubaib Raza To pass the argument for increasing the default "shm_size" you would have to use the DockerConfiguration object. Here is a sample to achieve this:

from azureml.core import Environment  
from azureml.core import ScriptRunConfig  
from azureml.core.runconfig import DockerConfiguration  
  
  
# Specify VM and Python environment:  
my_env = Environment.from_conda_specification(name='my-test-env', file_path=PATH_TO_YAML_FILE)  
my_env.docker.base_image = 'mcr.microsoft.com/azureml/openmpi3.1.2-cuda10.2-cudnn7-ubuntu18.04'  
  
docker_config = DockerConfiguration(use_docker=True,shm_size='32g')  
  
# Finally, use the environment in the ScriptRunConfig:  
src = ScriptRunConfig(source_directory=DEPLOY_CONTAINER_FOLDER_PATH,  
                      script=SCRIPT_FILE_TO_EXECUTE,  
                      arguments=EXECUTE_ARGUMENTS,  
                      compute_target=compute_target,  
                      environment=my_env,  
                      docker_runtime_config=docker_config)  

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