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RAG chat app with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search (Python)

This solution creates a ChatGPT-like frontend experience over your own documents using RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation). It uses Azure OpenAI Service to access GPT models, and Azure AI Search for data indexing and retrieval.

This solution's backend is written in Python. There are also JavaScript, .NET, and Java samples based on this one. Learn more about developing AI apps using Azure AI Services.

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Important Security Notice

This template, the application code and configuration it contains, has been built to showcase Microsoft Azure specific services and tools. We strongly advise our customers not to make this code part of their production environments without implementing or enabling additional security features. See our productionizing guide for tips, and consult the Azure OpenAI Landing Zone reference architecture for more best practices.

Table of Contents

Chat screen

📺 Watch a video overview of the app.

This sample demonstrates a few approaches for creating ChatGPT-like experiences over your own data using the Retrieval Augmented Generation pattern. It uses Azure OpenAI Service to access a GPT model (gpt-35-turbo), and Azure AI Search for data indexing and retrieval.

The repo includes sample data so it's ready to try end to end. In this sample application we use a fictitious company called Contoso Electronics, and the experience allows its employees to ask questions about the benefits, internal policies, as well as job descriptions and roles.

Features

Architecture Diagram

RAG Architecture

Azure account requirements

IMPORTANT: In order to deploy and run this example, you'll need:

Cost estimation

Pricing varies per region and usage, so it isn't possible to predict exact costs for your usage. However, you can try the Azure pricing calculator for the resources below.

To reduce costs, you can switch to free SKUs for various services, but those SKUs have limitations. See this guide on deploying with minimal costs for more details.

⚠️ To avoid unnecessary costs, remember to take down your app if it's no longer in use, either by deleting the resource group in the Portal or running azd down.

Getting Started

You have a few options for setting up this project. The easiest way to get started is GitHub Codespaces, since it will setup all the tools for you, but you can also set it up locally if desired.

GitHub Codespaces

You can run this repo virtually by using GitHub Codespaces, which will open a web-based VS Code in your browser:

Open in GitHub Codespaces

Once the codespace opens (this may take several minutes), open a terminal window.

VS Code Dev Containers

A related option is VS Code Dev Containers, which will open the project in your local VS Code using the Dev Containers extension:

  1. Start Docker Desktop (install it if not already installed)

  2. Open the project: Open in Dev Containers

  3. In the VS Code window that opens, once the project files show up (this may take several minutes), open a terminal window.

Local environment

  1. Install the required tools:

    • Azure Developer CLI
    • Python 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
      • Important: Python and the pip package manager must be in the path in Windows for the setup scripts to work.
      • Important: Ensure you can run python --version from console. On Ubuntu, you might need to run sudo apt install python-is-python3 to link python to python3.
    • Node.js 18+
    • Git
    • Powershell 7+ (pwsh) - For Windows users only.
      • Important: Ensure you can run pwsh.exe from a PowerShell terminal. If this fails, you likely need to upgrade PowerShell.

  2. Create a new folder and switch to it in the terminal.

  3. Run this command to download the project code:

    azd init -t azure-search-openai-demo

    Note that this command will initialize a git repository, so you do not need to clone this repository.

Deploying

The steps below will provision Azure resources and deploy the application code to Azure Container Apps. To deploy to Azure App Service instead, follow the app service deployment guide.

  1. Login to your Azure account:

    azd auth login

    For GitHub Codespaces users, if the previous command fails, try:

     azd auth login --use-device-code

  2. Create a new azd environment:

    azd env new

    Enter a name that will be used for the resource group. This will create a new folder in the .azure folder, and set it as the active environment for any calls to azd going forward.

  3. (Optional) This is the point where you can customize the deployment by setting environment variables, in order to use existing resources, enable optional features (such as auth or vision), or deploy low-cost options, or deploy with the Azure free trial.

  4. Run azd up - This will provision Azure resources and deploy this sample to those resources, including building the search index based on the files found in the ./data folder.

    • Important: Beware that the resources created by this command will incur immediate costs, primarily from the AI Search resource. These resources may accrue costs even if you interrupt the command before it is fully executed. You can run azd down or delete the resources manually to avoid unnecessary spending.
    • You will be prompted to select two locations, one for the majority of resources and one for the OpenAI resource, which is currently a short list. That location list is based on the OpenAI model availability table and may become outdated as availability changes.

  5. After the application has been successfully deployed you will see a URL printed to the console. Click that URL to interact with the application in your browser. It will look like the following:

'Output from running azd up'

NOTE: It may take 5-10 minutes after you see 'SUCCESS' for the application to be fully deployed. If you see a "Python Developer" welcome screen or an error page, then wait a bit and refresh the page.

Deploying again

If you've only changed the backend/frontend code in the app folder, then you don't need to re-provision the Azure resources. You can just run:

azd deploy

If you've changed the infrastructure files (infra folder or azure.yaml), then you'll need to re-provision the Azure resources. You can do that by running:

azd up

Running the development server

You can only run a development server locally after having successfully run the azd up command. If you haven't yet, follow the deploying steps above.

  1. Run azd auth login if you have not logged in recently.
  2. Start the server:

Windows:

./app/start.ps1

Linux/Mac:

./app/start.sh

VS Code: Run the "VS Code Task: Start App" task.

It's also possible to enable hotloading or the VS Code debugger. See more tips in the local development guide.

Using the app

Once in the web app:

Clean up

To clean up all the resources created by this sample:

  1. Run azd down
  2. When asked if you are sure you want to continue, enter y
  3. When asked if you want to permanently delete the resources, enter y

The resource group and all the resources will be deleted.

Guidance

You can find extensive documentation in the docs folder:

Resources

Getting help

This is a sample built to demonstrate the capabilities of modern Generative AI apps and how they can be built in Azure. For help with deploying this sample, please post in GitHub Issues. If you're a Microsoft employee, you can also post in our Teams channel.

This repository is supported by the maintainers, not by Microsoft Support, so please use the support mechanisms described above, and we will do our best to help you out.

Note

Note: The PDF documents used in this demo contain information generated using a language model (Azure OpenAI Service). The information contained in these documents is only for demonstration purposes and does not reflect the opinions or beliefs of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the information contained in this document. All rights reserved to Microsoft.