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