Azure

Options: VM (recommended), or Container Apps.

Option 1: Virtual Machine (recommended)

1. Create a VM: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Standard_B1s (1 GB) or Standard_B2s (2 GB) to start. Choose a region close to your users.
2. Network security group (NSG): add an inbound rule for TCP 8080 (and 443 for TLS). Restrict the SSH rule to your IP.
3. SSH in and follow the generic VPS guide:

ssh <user>@<public-ip>
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iqbqioza/nostrfy/main/install.sh | sh
sudo mkdir -p /etc/nostrfy
sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/nostrfy/nostrfy.toml \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iqbqioza/nostrfy/main/deploy/nostrfy.toml
sudo nano /etc/nostrfy/nostrfy.toml                 # set name, public_url, private_key
sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/systemd/system/nostrfy.service \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iqbqioza/nostrfy/main/deploy/nostrfy.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now nostrfy

4. Verify:

curl http://<public-ip>:8080/health

5. Add TLS (wss://) with certbot + nginx (as in the VPS guide) or an Azure Application Gateway with a certificate.

Option 2: Azure Container Apps

Container Apps builds from the repository Dockerfile (which downloads the pre-built release binary):

1. Create a Container App from the GitHub repo (or push the image to ACR).
2. Port: set the container port to 8080.
3. Memory: at least 1 GB.
4. Persistent storage: mount an Azure Storage file share at /data for the LMDB data.
5. TLS: Container Apps provides https:// on the app URL — set relay.public_url = "wss://<app>.<region>.azurecontainerapps.io" (or a custom domain).