Deploying Blockchain Service on Azure

Chris Wan
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3 min readMay 15, 2024

Azure offers a robust suite of solutions tailored for the burgeoning Web3 landscape. With Azure, deploying a blockchain network becomes a streamlined process, allowing for rapid and efficient setup. Once your blockchain foundation is established, Azure’s cloud infrastructure empowers you to swiftly develop and launch your decentralized applications (DApps) or other Web3 applications, leveraging the cloud’s scalability and security.

This seamless integration facilitates innovation and accelerates the time-to-market for your Web3 projects, ensuring that you stay at the forefront of this dynamic and evolving digital frontier. Azure’s commitment to providing comprehensive support for Web3 initiatives underscores its position as a leading platform for cutting-edge technological advancements.

Azure’s fully managed blockchain service offers a comprehensive solution for developing and operating blockchain networks with ease. It simplifies the formation, management, and governance of consortium blockchain networks, allowing businesses to concentrate on workflow logic and application development. With Azure, you can deploy a blockchain service effortlessly, enabling your business partners to join the network with ease. The service ensures that your blockchain network is managed privately and securely, adhering to enterprise standards.

For more details on Azure supporting Web3 can refer to the following URL:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/web3

If you want to have a test on Azure about deploying a blockchain network, I suggest using Quorum Dev Quickstart.

You can find this quick deployment template on the Azure portal.

After the deployment, you will get a VM for hosting the network node.

SSH remote connect to the VM, then run the script in the home directory “./run.sh”

Follow the instructions to set up your network, details can be referred to GoQuorum Developer Quickstart.

After the setup finishes, you should be able to get the address of your PRC node and block explorer.

You can also run the script “./list.sh” to retrieve the URL list at any time.

the JSON-PRC HTTP service endpoint is used for communicating with the blockchain network, usually, we will connect with the wallet (e.g. MetaMask) by using this endpoint.

If you wish to monitor the translations, and account information, you can use Block Explorer by browsing the Web block explorer address (Remember to switch the localhost to your public IP address or Azure hostname).

You can view the transaction details, node information for the block explorer.

You are ready to deploy your D-App now.

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