Microservices Discovery within VPC for AI Service Orchestration

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To facilitate microservices discovery within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for AI Service Orchestration, we can utilize AWS App Mesh and AWS Cloud Map (Service Discovery) along with AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) to create a manageable, observable, and highly dynamic service infrastructure.

AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking, enabling your services to communicate with each other in a consistent and secure way. It ensures that your services are loosely coupled and enables you to monitor and control communications across your services.

AWS Cloud Map (Service Discovery) allows you to define custom names for your application resources, and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically changing resources. This makes it simpler to perform microservices discovery as each service can discover and connect to other services in the VPC without hardcoded configurations.

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to run applications on a managed cluster of EC2 instances or with AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containers that handles the infrastructure management tasks for you.

Here is a Python program using Pulumi to set up the necessary infrastructure:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

# Create a VPC for our microservices
vpc = aws.ec2.Vpc("appMeshVpc", cidr_block="10.0.0.0/16")

# Create subnets for the VPC
subnet = aws.ec2.Subnet("appMeshSubnet",
    vpc_id=vpc.id,
    cidr_block="10.0.1.0/24",
    availability_zone="us-west-2a")

# Initialize the ECS Cluster
ecs_cluster = aws.ecs.Cluster("ecsCluster")

# Create App Mesh Service Mesh
mesh = aws.appmesh.Mesh("serviceMesh")

# Create a virtual node for a microservice
virtual_node = aws.appmesh.VirtualNode("serviceNode",
    mesh_name=mesh.name,
    spec=aws.appmesh.VirtualNodeSpecArgs(
        listener=aws.appmesh.VirtualNodeSpecListenerArgs(
            port_mapping=aws.appmesh.VirtualNodeSpecListenerPortMappingArgs(
                port=8080,
                protocol="http",
            ),
        ),
        service_discovery=aws.appmesh.VirtualNodeSpecServiceDiscoveryArgs(
            aws_cloud_map=aws.appmesh.VirtualNodeSpecServiceDiscoveryAwsCloudMapArgs(
                namespace_name="my-microservices",
                service_name="my-service",
            ),
        ),
    ))

# Create a service discovery namespace
service_discovery_namespace = aws.servicediscovery.HttpNamespace("discoveryNamespace",
    description="My microservices namespace")

# Register a microservice in the namespace
service_reg = aws.servicediscovery.Service("microserviceRegistration",
    description="The microservice",
    http=aws.servicediscovery.ServiceHttpArgs(
        name="my-service",
    ),
    namespace_id=service_discovery_namespace.id)

# If using ECS, we would define our task definition and service here.
# Task definitions are like blueprints for your containers specifying what image to use, what ports to open, etc.

# After setting up services, we need to associate ECS services with App Mesh virtual nodes or virtual routers for traffic distribution and routing to our services.

# pulumi.export exports output properties to make them easily accessible.
pulumi.export('vpc_id', vpc.id)
pulumi.export('ecs_cluster_name', ecs_cluster.name)
pulumi.export('service_mesh_name', mesh.name)
```

In this program, we started by creating an AWS VPC and subnet which will act as the network boundary for our microservices. Next, we provisioned an ECS Cluster which will manage the lifecycle of our containers running the microservices.

We further defined the App Mesh service mesh and a virtual node within it representing a microservice. A namespace for service discovery is then created, and we register a microservice so it's discoverable through AWS Cloud Map.

Remember, you would need to define a task definition for your containers and create an ECS Service that runs tasks based on this definition. The ECS Service must be configured to associate its tasks with a virtual node or a virtual router within App Mesh. While this program doesn't include every step, it lays out the foundation for your microservices infrastructure. Each microservice would be defined similarly and then wired up through App Mesh for routing and discovery.