[Quantum] Submit jobs directly to service, Phase 1

[warren-jones]

Submit jobs directly to the Quantum service data-plane layer from the CLI. This will support submission of QIR and pass-through jobs. Minimal support is included for QIO jobs that only require gzip compression, not protobuf input.

Four new command parameters were added:
--job-input-file
--job-input-format
--job-output-format
--entry-point

Additional parameters can be passed using --job-params

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Related commands

az quantum job submit
az quantum execute
az quantum run

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[yonzhan]

Quantum

[wangzelin007]

/azp run

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[kairu-ms]

Hi @evelyn-ys, can an extension dependence on a specific version of 'azure-storage-blob'?

[evelyn-ys]

we don't recommend one extension to depend on another one....

Why does quantum need to use azure-storage-blob?

[warren-jones]

It is not depending on another extension. It is depending on a published PyPi package, azure-storage-blob from the Azure SDK for Python.

Why?
To submit a job to quantum hardware or a simulator, the client of the quantum service must upload a quantum program to a blob in an Azure storage account. In the past, there was only one method of submitting a quantum job with the CLI: Create a Q# program and use the Q# compiler. The compiler builds a .NET executable that performs the upload. To generalize CLI job-submission to support many other quantum programming languages in addition to Q#, the quantum CLI extension needs to perform this blob upload.

The Quantum QDK provides an SDK called qdk-python that aids in managing Azure Quantum programming with a Python client. The blob-upload code being added to the CLI extension in this PR is based on code in qdk-python. The qdk-python code depends on the azure-storage-blob PyPi package.

[warren-jones]

Other extensions have dependencies on various PyPi packages, for example:

src\cloudservice\setup.py

DEPENDENCIES = [
    'azure-mgmt-compute~=20.0.0'
]

src\connectedk8s\setup.py

DEPENDENCIES = [
    'kubernetes==24.2.0',
    'pycryptodome==3.14.1',
    'azure-mgmt-hybridcompute==7.0.0'
]

src\db-up\setup.py

DEPENDENCIES = [
    'Cython==0.29.17',
    'mysql-connector-python==8.0.14',
    'psycopg2-binary==2.9.1'
]

[kairu-ms]

It seems azure-storage-blob is not used in azure-cli repo. Approved.