Quorum on Azure Blockchain Service — Part 1 — Create a Blockchain consortium member

Juarez Junior
3 min readJun 24, 2020
Microsoft Azure Blockchain

by Juarez Junior

Introduction

This blog post provides the minimum steps required to create a Quorum consortium on Azure Blockchain Service.

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 Quorum Blockchain is about or its components and architecture either. In case you need an introduction to Quorum, please check the official documentation for developers here.

So without further ado, let’s start!

Create the Azure Blockchain Service member

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

  1. Navigate to https://ms.portal.azure.com/ and select Create a resource as shown below:
Create a resource

2. Click on Create a resource, and select Blockchain under Azure Marketplace on the right side:

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