Corda on Azure — How to deploy and run a demo Corda network

Juarez Junior
6 min readSep 2, 2020
Azure Blockchain

by Juarez Junior

This blog post provides the steps required to deploy a demo Corda network.

The sample Corda network will provide you with all the basic nodes as well as the shells that you can use to interact with them, along with a sample web application to test the sample smart contract.

You’ll need an Azure subscription to perform the steps below. If you do not have an Azure subscription, you can get a free Microsoft Azure account here.

At last, I’m not going to explain what the Corda is about nor its components and architecture neither. In case you need an introduction to Corda, please check the official documentation for Corda.

So without further ado, let’s start!

Create a Virtual Machine

To execute the tasks, we’re going to use the Azure Portal as well as follow the steps below:

Navigate to https://ms.portal.azure.com/ and select Virtual machines as shown below:

Azure virtual machines

Select Add, then Virtual Machine:

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