Install on Azure

FAQ
1

I was able to run metabase.jar on my machine (W10), and now I need to try on Azure, because it’s where I have SQL Server.

I couldn’t do it by myself (closure and jetty are new to me).
Is there any documentation or tips about this environment?

On Azure, I tried:

  • Create a web app;
  • Set to Java 8 and Jetty 9.1;
  • Failed to run metabase.jar.

Thanks!

2

We don’t use Azure all that much.

We ship a standalone jar that can be run as-is. If the web app is expecting a WAR file or other Java deployment artifact our shipped Jar won’t work.

3

You might try running our docker image on azure instead.

4

Thanks for the quick response, docker will be my last alternative.
I will try to find a way, and if I do, I’ll write here.

5

You can use it with a combination of a httpPlatformHandler and a bat file. Its quite tricky but its possible.

  1. Create new web app with windows os
  2. Under Application settings:
    2.a Select Java 8 and pick newest Tomcat as Java container
    2.b Set up the database config environment variables as settings. (For example, MB_DB_TYPE = postgres).
  3. Upload metabase.jar and put in %HOME%/site/wwwroot/
  4. Take web.config and run.bat from this gist https://gist.github.com/viblo/76a5969c84f59470233ec2b618dd5c8f and also put in the same place.
  5. Done!
6

Hi everyone!
Any news about installing it on Azure? Is the best way still an docker image?

Thanks.

Byebye

7

I just run it on Azure in a VM. At the moment, it’s using Ubuntu, but just as easy to use Windows Server. Only pain is creating the services.

8

Hi, could you explain more on this process.
I tried installing docker image on azure but I get error running my application.
I followed Quickstart - Deploy Docker container to container instance - Azure CLI - Azure Container Instances | Microsoft Learn and executed below command to create a metabase docker image.

az container create --resource-group xxx --name metabase --image metabase/metabase --dns-name-label yyy --ports 80

This command was successful but my application won't load when I tried to access my application through fqdn given by the above command.

I can see the following in logs but I'm not sure how I can proceed and setup metabase.

05-08 12:28:18 INFO metabase.core :: Please use the following URL to setup your Metabase installation:

http://0.0.0.0:3000/setup/

Am I missing any step here?

9

Hi @praneetha
What error are you getting?
I think you can follow the Docker guide and get up running:
https://metabase.com/docs/latest/operations-guide/running-metabase-on-docker.html

10

Hi @flamber, I get connection timed out error when I try to access my application.
Also I checked in azure portal that my docker is up and running. Yet unable to access it through fqdn.
Also I think the link that u sent me is to set up metabase on docker but in my issue I am able to get the docker image on azure( atleast thats what it says by giving successful message) However I don’t understand how to proceed with the next step. As per this tutorial -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/container-instances-quickstart, we should be able to access the application directly through fqdn. But here I cant

11

I got it. I was able to get the application on fqdn:portnum/setup

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