Microsoft Blockchain Service discontinued

Question

Hello,

I was redirected by Microsoft Technical Support: "Azure Blockchain Service that you see has deprecated in the Portal, Microsoft is retiring Azure Blockchain Service on 10 September 2021, based on recent changes in the blockchain industry and the growing business needs of customers, Microsoft is collaborating with ConsenSys, one of our blockchain technology providers, to offer a managed offering of their blockchain ledgers on Azure."

My question, since ConcenSys offers FULL software development suite:

• Truffle
• CodeFi
• MetaMask
• Quorum
• Infura

what the purpose of Microsoft Azure Blockchain Workbench?

Is it to host all these tools on Azure and access them from one place (MS Azure Blockchain Workbench)?

Please provide detailed step-by-step instructions on how to integrate all these tools into the MS Azure Blockchain Workbench

Answer 1

Azure Blockchain Workbench is a template solution to help create and deploy a blockchain application quickly on Azure. This is mainly meant to help customers with their POCs in Blockchain and is not built for production use cases.

Azure Blockchain Workbench is a collection of Azure services, there is no integration with the services provided by ConsenSys. It would be best to reach out to ConsenSys team https://consensys.net/qbs/ to know more on their plans.