Deploy a Graph Database in 3 Steps [No Code Needed]!

Jon Herke
3 min readJan 13, 2020

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I’m Totally Serious

Note: If you’re super fast you can deploy a free instance in less than 1 minute!

If you’re reading this and thinking what is Graph?

A few resources to enlighten you on your journey to learning graph:

Let’s Get Started

Step 0) Create an account at https://tgcloud.io

Okay, you caught me this is an extra step, but I swear once you’re logged in there are ONLY three steps (before you hit “Submit”)

Step 1) Navigate to “My Solutions” & click “CREATE SOLUTION”

Once you see the screen shown below choose one of the prebuilt “Starter Kits”, or you also have the option of choosing a “blank” graph.

If you are creating an instance for GSQL 101 Certification, I would recommend the “GSQL 101” graph.

Step 2) Add Solution Settings

Here you will be able to give a name & sub-domain of your choosing to your solution. Once you finish filling the fields out hit “next”.

Step 3) Select your Instance Settings

If you would like to give TigerGraph a test choose the “TG.Free” option. Once you finish hit “next” & “submit” if everything looks good!

Because it’s free, if your graph is inactive for more than 2 hours it will spin down your solution to save resources.

Conclusion

It really was that simple! Probably the simplest provisioning process that you’ve ever dealt with!

At this point you will now have a Full Function Graph Solution.

Now, what you may ask. I would recommend you check out the following guides if you're looking for the next steps:

Additional Guides

Connect with the TigerGraph Community:

If you have any questions, suggestions, things to share, or just to connect, I recommend checking out the following:

Community Form: https://www.reddit.com/r/tigergraph/

Community Chat: https://discord.gg/F2c9b9v

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