Continuous Delivery for AI Applications on Azure Spring Cloud

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Continuous Delivery (CD) is an essential part of modern software engineering practices and is particularly valuable for AI applications, allowing for rapid iterations, testing, and deployment of models and related services. To implement Continuous Delivery for AI applications on Azure Spring Cloud, we need to set up a few things:

1. **Azure Spring Cloud Service**: This will host our actual AI application.
2. **Spring Cloud App**: We will deploy our AI application as a Spring Cloud App.
3. **Service Registry and Discovery**: It's useful for microservices architecture, which is common in AI applications. 
4. **Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)**: In Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, to automate the deployment of new versions of the AI application.

Below is a Pulumi program in Python that sets up an Azure Spring Cloud Service and a basic Spring Cloud App. We will not cover the Service Registry, Discovery, and CI/CD setup as they typically involve third-party services and workflows contingent on the development environment.

### Pulumi Program - Setting up Azure Spring Cloud for AI Applications

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_azure as azure

# Provide the name of your Resource Group and Azure region
resource_group = azure.core.ResourceGroup('ai-apps-rg', location='EastUS')

# Create an Azure Spring Cloud Service
spring_cloud_service = azure.appplatform.SpringCloudService('ai-apps-spring-service',
    resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
    location=resource_group.location,
    sku_name="Standard", # Choosing a standard SKU for the Spring Cloud Service
)

# Create an Azure Spring Cloud App within the service
spring_cloud_app = azure.appplatform.SpringCloudApp('ai-model-app',
    resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
    service_name=spring_cloud_service.name,
    is_public=True, # This setting would depend on whether you want the app to be accessible publicly
)

# Export the URLs where the Spring Cloud app will be reachable
pulumi.export('Spring Cloud Service URL', spring_cloud_service.url)
pulumi.export('Spring Cloud App URL', spring_cloud_app.url)
```

This program creates a resource group to hold all the resources, initializes an Azure Spring Cloud Service instance, and then adds an app to the Spring Cloud Service. We also export the URLs where these services will be available, but keep in mind that for a real AI application, we would need to provide configurations for things like Service Registry and handled CI/CD for deployment, which isn't shown here.

You'll need to have the Pulumi CLI installed and configured with Azure credentials to run this program. Save the above code to a file called `__main__.py`, and then run `pulumi up` within the directory to create the resources.

This is a basic setup and the starting point. AI applications may require additional services like databases, message queues, or data stores. Those need to be set up based on the requirements of the AI application and then integrated with this program. Azure provides a broad set of managed services that work well with Spring Cloud, which you can leverage based on the needs of your application.