Azure DB Deployment Guide

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Azure DB Deployment Guide

Purpose The following guide describes the procedure of deploying the DB on Azure.

General In order to store data persistently, Roommates platform includes a DB module. The DB we chose to use is MongoDB (see MongoDB tutorial @ our Wiki).
We can use Cosmos DB (on azure) which is a globally distributed database for low latency and massively scalable applications, with native support for NoSQL as our DB.

Deployment Steps

1. Login to your Azure account.
2. Choose "Azure Cosmos DB" on the left panel of the dashboard.
3. Click on "Add".
4. Configure the DB server:
5. Configure Geo-redundancy:
6. Add custom alerts:
7. Copy the URL and set it as the value of the MongoDB server environemt variable on server side.