Summary

Well done! You made it this far. We covered a lot of topics, and you should be proud of what we accomplished. We started by creating our first subscription and activated our free trial, which is valid for 30 days at the time of writing. Then we learned about Cloud Shell, which is a web-based console that provides PowerShell and Bash terminals directly in the Azure portal. We also learned about the lightweight code editor embedded in Cloud Shell, which is a very convenient feature. We then provisioned our own Cloud Shell instance, allowing us to create ADX clusters and databases via PowerShell and ARM templates.

Then, we created our first ADX cluster and database using the Azure portal, then deleted it and learned about the benefits of Infrastructure as Code and introduced the declarative and imperative programming paradigms.

Then, we learned how to create ADX clusters and databases using PowerShell cmdlets and had a quick introduction to ARM templates, where we learned...