In this chapter, we looked at how to open a new Microsoft Azure account, create a new HDInsight service, and run sample jobs on the HDInsight cluster in the cloud. Next, we looked at how an HDInsight Hadoop cluster allows scaling of storage and compute independently, making the solution flexible and cost effective. Lastly, we looked at a single node HDInsight Emulator, which is great for development and can be installed on the local desktop.

Now that the cluster is up and running, we will look at how to administer and monitor it in the next chapter.