Cloud deployment with Azure

In this section, you will learn how to deploy Neo4j to a Linux VM hosted on Azure. Azure has wizards to guide you, but we will be using Command-line Interface (CLI) tools for our setup. If CLI tools are not installed on the system, you can install them using the Node package manager with the following command:

npm install azure-cli

When the tools are installed, we open a terminal, type azure, and we are greeted with cool ASCII art and some common commands. Now, to create our new Linux VM on Azure, we need the following information:

  • The DNS name of our VM, which will later be used to access your app as DNS_name.cloudapp.net. We will be using myDNS.
  • The name of an existing Ubuntu distribution image that can be selected ...

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