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You have two different ways of running Node-RED in Azure: an Azure Web App and an Azure Virtual Machine instance.

Install Node-RED on an Azure Web App

Note: The Deploy to Azure Web App project is not maintained by the Node-RED organization. If you have any issue you can open it in its own node-red-azure-webapp repository.

  1. Click Deploy to Azure:

  1. Open your site (in port 80) and wait until everything is deployed. It will take some minutes to be completely deployed.

Or...

  1. Create an Azure Web App

  2. Open the settings and activate Web sockets

  3. Configure the deployment options as an External repository pointing to https://github.com/jmservera/node-red-azure-webapp.git

  4. Open your site (in port 80) and wait until everything is deployed. It will take some minutes to be completely deployed.

Install Node-RED on an Azure Virtual Machine

This guide takes you through the steps to get Node-RED running on an Azure Virtual Machine instance.

Create the base image

  1. Log in to the Azure console

  2. Click to add a New ... Virtual Machine

  3. In the list of Virtual Machines, select Ubuntu Server, then click 'Create'

  4. Give your machine a name, the username you want to use and the authentication details you want to use to access the instance

  5. Choose the Size of your instance. Remember that node.js is single-threaded so there's no benefit to picking a size with multiple cores for a simple node-red instance. A1 Basic is a good starting point

  6. On the 'Settings' step, click on the 'Network security group' option. Add a new 'Inbound rule' with the options set as:

    • Name: node-red-editor
    • Priority: 1010
    • Protocol: TCP
    • Destination port range: 1880

  7. Click 'Ok' on the Settings page, check the Summary then click 'Ok' to deploy the new instance

After a couple of minutes your instance will be running. In the console you can find your instance's IP address

Setup Node-RED

The next task is to log into the instance then install node.js and Node-RED.

Log into your instance using the authentication details you specified in the previous stage.

Once logged in you need to install node.js and Node-RED

   curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
   sudo apt-get install -y nodejs build-essential
   sudo npm install -g node-red

At this point you can test your instance by running node-red. Note: you may get some errors regarding the Serial node - that's to be expected and can be ignored.

Once started, you can access the editor at http://<your-instance-ip>:1880/.

To get Node-RED to start automatically whenever your instance is restarted, you can use pm2:

   sudo npm install -g pm2
   pm2 start `which node-red` -- -v
   pm2 save
   pm2 startup

Note: this final command will prompt you to run a further command - make sure you do as it says.