Provision a CosmosDB Instance in Azure AD

The IT Shop Microservice uses MongoDB as it’s datasource. This topic takes through the steps required to provision an instance in Azure.

To provision a CosmosDB instance

1. Log in to your Azure portal as a user with the necessary permissions to provision a database.

2. In Azure, click the Hamburger icon to open the main navbar.

3. Hover over Azure Cosmos DB and click Create in the modal that appears.

   

4. Under Project Details, select a Subscription and Resource Group for the App Service.

5. Under Instance Details, do the following:

   • Account Name — Enter a name database.

   • API — Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB API.

   • Location — Select the appropriate geographic location.

   • Account Type — Production

   • Version — 3.6.

6. Click Review + Create.

   

7. Click Create.

   

8. After the database is provisioned click Connection String in the navbar and then copy all Read-write Keys. You will need these when you configure the IT Shop API App Service.