In the past year or so we have been involved in creating several data-lakes and data-warehouses - some from scratch and some in a brownfield environment where we had to either switch from traditional SQL clusters or run side-by-side with them.

Our tool of choice for running SQL on top of "BigDa...

Terraform is my go-to tool for repeatable and easy infrastructure deployments. I've previously shared how I deploy Elasticsearch on AWS with Terraform and Packer, and since posting that I used it to deploy many clusters, and it also got picked up by quite a few others.

Our offerings at BigData Bouti...

This is an updated version of my blog post from two years ago. It features both the new Azure Portal, and the new Elasticsearch 2.x series. It also incorporates some helpful additions based on my experience since. Thanks to Yves Goeleven for providing some sound Azure advice.

So...

Before we start, ...