Using Hasura Cloud with an Azure Postgres database¶

Introduction¶

This guide explains how to connect a new or existing Azure Postgres database to a Hasura Cloud project.

Step 0: Sign up or log in to Hasura Cloud¶

Navigate to Hasura Cloud and sign up or log in.

Step 1: Create a Hasura Cloud project¶

On the Hasura Cloud dashboard, create a new project:

After the project is initialized successfully, click on Launch console to open the Hasura console in your browser.

On the Hasura console, navigate to Data -> Manage -> Connect Database -> Connect existing database:

You will get prompted for a Postgres Database URL. We will create this in the next step and then come back here.

Step 2: Create a Postgres DB on Azure (skip if you have an existing DB)¶

Log into the Azure portal.

On the Azure portal, type “postgres” in the search window and choose Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers:

Click the + Add button to create a new Postgres database:

Choose the plan that fits your requirements. For this tutorial, we’ll choose Single server:

Configure your database with all required fields:

Then click Review + create.

Step 3: Allow connections to your DB from Hasura Cloud¶

On the database dashboard, click on Connection security under Settings on the left navigation bar.

On Allow access to Azure services, click the Yes button. Then add a Firewall rule for Hasura.

Copy the IP address from the copy icon in the Hasura Cloud IP field on the project’s details view on Hasura Cloud.

Add the Hasura IP address that you copied:

Then click Save on the top left.

Step 4: Construct the database connection URL¶

The structure of the database connection URL looks as follows:

postgresql://<user-name>:<password>@<public-ip>:<postgres-port>/<db>

On the database dashboard, click on Overview:

• user-name: If you have a separate database user, the user name will be their name. If you didn’t specify a user, use the Admin username (see screenshot above). Note: you need to escape the @. Replace it with %40.
• password: If you have a separate database user, use their password. Otherwise, use the password that you chose when creating the database.
• public-ip: On the screenshot above, the Server name is the public IP.
• postgres-port: The default port for Postgres is 5432.
• db: The DB is postgres by default unless otherwise specified.

Step 5: Finish connecting the database¶

Back on Hasura Console, enter the database URL that we retrieved in step 4:

Then click Connect Database.

Voilà. You are ready to start developing.

Next steps¶

You can check out our 30-Minute Hasura Basics Course and other GraphQL & Hasura Courses for a more detailed introduction to Hasura.

You can also click the gear icon to manage your Hasura Cloud project. (e.g. add collaborators, env vars or custom domains) and add an admin secret to make sure that your GraphQL endpoint and the Hasura console are not publicly accessible.