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Infinity on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Serve text embeddings and reranking privately, behind one API with a per VM credential and no default login.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

Infinity is an open source, high throughput REST server for text embeddings, reranking and CLIP models. It serves models such as BGE, GTE, E5 and Sentence Transformers with dynamic batching behind an OpenAI compatible embeddings API, so existing OpenAI SDK code works unchanged. You call it from your own applications, from the OpenAI SDK or from the CLI.

Why the cloudimg image

The Infinity server is bound to loopback and fronted by an nginx TLS proxy that enforces HTTP Basic auth, so nothing is reachable without a credential. A fresh admin password and TLS certificate are generated on first boot into a root only file, so there is no default login. A small open weights model is pre downloaded so the API answers immediately, it generates embeddings on CPU and offloads to the GPU when one is present, and 24/7 cloudimg support plus a paired deploy guide are included.

Common uses

  • Embeddings backend for private RAG pipelines
  • High throughput batch embedding of documents
  • Reranking for search and retrieval