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Deploying Microsoft Agent Framework Console Apps to Azure with Foundry Hosted Agents
Key points
- Foundry Hosted Agents manage Azure deployment for MAF console apps.
- Reduces deployment to a NuGet package, C# lines, and commands.
- Handles compute, scaling, identity, and session state.
- Allows inspection of conversations and traces in Foundry portal.
Simplified Agent Deployment
Deploying agents developed with the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) previously required significant infrastructure setup, including Dockerfiles, web servers, authentication, and scaling rules. This often meant creating a separate project solely for deployment.
Introducing Foundry Hosted Agents
Foundry Hosted Agents offer a managed solution for MAF console applications within Azure. This service allows developers to deploy their agent logic as a containerized application on Microsoft-managed infrastructure. Foundry provides an endpoint and handles compute, scaling, identity, session state, observability, and the overall lifecycle.
Streamlined Process
The new deployment method reduces the effort to a single NuGet package, three lines of C# code, and two commands. This contrasts with the previous requirement of building and operating an entire second project for deployment.
Deployment Workflow
The process involves registering the agent with the Foundry Responses protocol, running and invoking it locally with 'azd', provisioning Azure resources, and deploying it as a Foundry Hosted Agent. Developers can then inspect conversations, traces, versions, and evaluations within the Foundry portal.
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Primary sources
GitHub microsoft-foundry/foundry-samplesReporting from
Microsoft's Foundry Hosted Agents now provide a managed solution for deploying console applications built with the Microsoft Agent Framework to Azure. This simplifies the deployment process, eliminating the need for extensive manual setup of infrastructure components like Dockerfiles, web servers, and scaling rules.