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Stargate Azure deployment using an image

Deploy Stargate on Azure

Get the image file

Upload the Azure VHD image file

  • Navigate to https://portal.azure.com/#home
  • Click Storage accounts.
  • Select the storage account to use or create a new one.
  • Click Block service and then Containers.
  • Select the Container to upload the file to or create a new one if you do not have a Container.
  • Click Upload and choose the VHD image file.
  • Make sure that the Blob type is Page Blob.

Create the image

  • Navigate to https://portal.azure.com/#home
  • Click Images.
  • Click Create.
  • Choose the Resource group to be used or create a new one.
  • Type a Name for the image.
  • Choose OS type Linux and VM generation Gen 2
  • At Storage blob, click browse and select the new uploaded VHD image.
  • Click Review and create.
  • Click Create.

Create a VM

  • Navigate to https://portal.azure.com/#home
  • Click Virtual Machines.
  • Click Create, and choose Virtual Machine from the drop-down menu.
  • Choose the Resource group.
  • Type a Name for the VM.
  • At Image, click "See all images", click "My Images" and choose the new image that was created.
  • Choose the VM size.
  • Choose authentication type.
  • Click Next:Disks
  • Select OS disk size at least 20GiB
  • Click Review + create
  • Click Create

Find the public IP address of the new VM and add inbound firewall rules

  • Navigate to https://portal.azure.com/#home
  • Click Virtual Machines.
  • Click on the new VM.
  • You can see the public IP address under "Primary NIC public IP"
  • Scroll down to Networking and click on it
  • Click +Create port rule, Inbound port rule, Destination port ranges 25, Protocol TCP, name it SMTP, repeat the same step with Destination port ranges 1587 and name it mxengine

Log in and initialize the stargate instance

  • Log in to the VM with the user that you chose during VM creation and the public IP address of the new VM:
ssh user@11.22.33.44
  • When logged in the VM:
sudo su -
cd stargate-deployment/docker-compose/

./scripts/install.sh