Jump-Start Big Data with Hortonworks Sandbox on Azure by Saptak Sen.
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We’re excited to announce the general availability of Hortonworks Sandbox for Hortonworks Data Platform 2.2 on Azure.
Hortonworks Sandbox is already a very popular environment in which developers, data scientists, and administrators can learn and experiment with the latest innovations in the Hortonworks Data Platform.
The hundreds of innovations span Hadoop, Kafka, Storm, Hive, Pig, YARN, Ambari, Falcon, Ranger, and other components of which HDP is composed. Now you can deploy this environment for your learning and experimentation in a few clicks on Microsoft Azure.
Follow the guide to Getting Started with Hortonworks Sandbox with HDP 2.2 on Azure to set up your own dev-ops environment on the cloud in a few clicks.
We also provide step by step tutorials to help you get a jump-start on how to use HDP to implement a Modern Data Architecture at your organization.
The Hadoop Sandbox is an excellent way to explore the Hadoop ecosystem. If you trash the setup, just open another sandbox.
Add Hortonworks tutorials to the sandbox and you are less likely to do something really dumb. Or at least you will understand what happened and how to avoid it before you go into production. Always nice to keep the dumb mistakes on your desktop.
Now the Hortonworks Sandbox is on Azure. Same safe learning environment but the power to scale when you are really to go live!