If you have been running Neo4j on Kubernetes and plan to trial or migrate to Neo4j Aura you will need to produce a Dump file of your database.

Beyond the consideration of compatibility of versions and the size of the datastore you will need to proceed as follows: 

 

1 - Mount a Physical volume to your k8 deployment to persist the data:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-persistent-volume-storage/ 

 

2 - Create a dump of your neo4j database: To produce a Dump of your database it first needs to be offline
https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/kubernetes/maintenance/#kubernetes-neo4j-dump-load 

 

3 - Load the neo4j dump produced to Aura via one of the following options:

• Use the Aura Console (dump file < 4GiB)
• Use push-to-cloud  (see documentation)