Create compute instance

Compute instance is a virtual machine, which runs in Azure cloud and allows one to execute jupyter notebook (sometimes refered to also as an executor), which runs the experiments. This VM is responsible for generation of container that are later submitted to nodes, initialization of the whole environment etc.

Thus, we will need a compute instance in order to execute jupyter notebook files. This instance can have less resources than client, as it is only used for executing jupyter notebook, not the actual ML training. Navigate to the Compute tab (left menu, 3rd from the bottom)

Fig. 5 - Location of compute tab

Here you can see 4 tabs:

• Compute instances - Here we want to create a new instance
• Compute clusters - Here the AML provided VMs should be higlighted
• Kubernetes clusters - Here the attached Arc clusters should be higlighted
• Attached computes - Here VM resources attached to the workspace are highlighted

In the "Compute instances" tabs, you should click on a "New". If you won't be doing actual data science on this machine, you should be fine with any recommended CPU options (DS11_v2, DS3_v2, DS12_v2, D13_v2).

Fig. 6 - Creating new compute instance