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Integration: Azure

Use OpenAI models deployed through Azure services with Haystack

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Table of Contents

Overview

Azure OpenAI Service provides REST API access to OpenAI’s powerful language models including the GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, GPT-3.5-Turbo, and Embeddings model series. To get access to Azure OpenAI endpoints, visit Azure OpenAI Service REST API reference.

Installation

Install Haystack 2.0:

pip install haystack-ai

Usage

To work with Azure components, you will need an Azure OpenAI API key, an Azure Active Directory Token as well as an Azure OpenAI Endpoint.

Components

All components use AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY and AZURE_OPENAI_AD_TOKEN environment variables by default. Otherwise, you can pass api_key and azure_ad_token at initialization using Secret class. Read more about Secret Handling.

Embedding Models

You can leverage embedding models from Azure OpenAI through two components: AzureOpenAITextEmbedder and AzureOpenAIDocumentEmbedder.

To create semantic embeddings for documents, use AzureOpenAIDocumentEmbedder in your indexing pipeline. For generating embeddings for queries, use AzureOpenAITextEmbedder. Once you’ve selected the suitable component for your specific use case, initialize the component with required parameters.

Below is the example indexing pipeline with InMemoryDocumentStore, AzureOpenAIDocumentEmbedder and DocumentWriter:

from haystack import Document, Pipeline
from haystack.document_stores.in_memory import InMemoryDocumentStore
from haystack.components.embedders import AzureOpenAITextEmbedder, AzureOpenAIDocumentEmbedder
from haystack.components.writers import DocumentWriter

os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "Your Azure OpenAI API key"
os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_AD_TOKEN"] = "Your Azure Active Directory Token"

document_store = InMemoryDocumentStore(embedding_similarity_function="cosine")

documents = [Document(content="My name is Wolfgang and I live in Berlin"),
             Document(content="I saw a black horse running"),
             Document(content="Germany has many big cities")]

indexing_pipeline = Pipeline()
indexing_pipeline.add_component("embedder", AzureOpenAIDocumentEmbedder(azure_endpoint="https://example-resource.azure.openai.com/", azure_deployment="text-embedding-ada-002"))
indexing_pipeline.add_component("writer", DocumentWriter(document_store=document_store))
indexing_pipeline.connect("embedder", "writer")

indexing_pipeline.run({"embedder": {"documents": documents}})

Generative Models (LLMs)

You can leverage Azure OpenAI models through two components: AzureOpenAIGenerator and AzureOpenAIChatGenerator.

To use OpenAI models deployed through Azure services for text generation, initialize a AzureOpenAIGenerator with azure_deployment and azure_endpoint. You can then use the AzureOpenAIGenerator instance in a pipeline after the PromptBuilder.

Below is the example of generative questions answering pipeline using RAG with PromptBuilder and AzureOpenAIGenerator:

from haystack import Pipeline
from haystack.components.retrievers.in_memory import InMemoryBM25Retriever
from haystack.components.builders.prompt_builder import PromptBuilder
from haystack.components.generators import AzureOpenAIGenerator

os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "Your Azure OpenAI API key"
os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_AD_TOKEN"] = "Your Azure Active Directory Token"

template = """
Given the following information, answer the question.

Context: 
{% for document in documents %}
    {{ document.content }}
{% endfor %}

Question: What's the official language of {{ country }}?
"""
pipe = Pipeline()

pipe.add_component("retriever", InMemoryBM25Retriever(document_store=document_store))
pipe.add_component("prompt_builder", PromptBuilder(template=template))
pipe.add_component("llm", AzureOpenAIGenerator(azure_endpoint="https://example-resource.azure.openai.com/", azure_deployment="gpt-35-turbo"))
pipe.connect("retriever", "prompt_builder.documents")
pipe.connect("prompt_builder", "llm")

pipe.run({
    "prompt_builder": {
        "country": "France"
    }
})