Installing Backendless Pro in Microsoft Azure

Backendless Pro is the standalone edition of the Backendless visual app development software and mBaaS that can be installed on your own servers. Backendless Pro enables you to build and host your application on your own on-premise servers or virtually any cloud server.

In this video, we will walk you through the step-by-step process of using the Backendless Pro Manager tool to install your own licensed copy of Backendless Pro on a Microsoft Azure cloud server, aka virtual machine.

The Microsoft Azure virtual servers enable you to "use your preferred languages, frameworks, and infrastructure—even your own datacenter and other clouds". When combined with Backendless Pro, you can unlock truly limitless scalability for your applications.

Contents
0:00 Intro and steps in the process
3:46 Creating a virtual machine in Azure
7:40 Add Backendless Pro Manager script to server user data
9:54 Open ports to access Pro Manager
12:25 Install Backendless Pro using Pro Manager
15:22 Open ports to access Console and APIs
18:34 Setup domains for Console and APIs with SSL certificates
26:49 Create application gateways (load balancers)
40:12 Update Console and API URLs in Pro Manager
43:32 Restrict access to open ports

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WP is far more popular than Microsoft Azure. Will you be making instructions for installing Backendless on WP anytime soon?
Users would still create their HTML/CSS frontends on WP. However, WP falls far short when it comes to designing a backend and frontend with Javascript functionality. WP is popular because most people do not want to code. Because of that, I think creating a WP plugin would attract a lot more users to Backendless.