Technical requirements

If you do not already have an Azure account, head over to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/search/ and sign up. Microsoft provides 12 months of popular free services and $200 credit at the time of writing.

The code examples for this chapter can be found in the Chapter02 folder of our repo: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Scalable-Data-Analytics-with-Azure-Data-Explorer.git.

For the PowerShell examples, we are going to use Azure Cloud Shell rather than installing and configuring the tools locally on our machines.

Table 2.1 shows the PowerShell cmdlet versions used for the PowerShell examples:

Table 2.1 – PowerShell cmdlet version info

All the code examples, both ARM templates and PowerShell, have been tested on Azure Cloud Shell, macOS, and Windows 10.