Azure Elastic is a service offered by Microsoft Azure that allows you to create, manage and scale Elastic deployments easily. Elastic is an open-source search and analytics engine that can be used for various purposes such as logging, security analysis, and e-commerce. Azure Elastic is fully managed, so you don’t have to worry about infrastructure management, and it offers features such as security, high availability, and scalability.

To create an Azure Elastic deployment, you can use the Azure portal, Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell. In this tutorial, we will focus on the Azure CLI.

Before we begin, make sure you have an Azure subscription and the Azure CLI installed on your machine.

Step 1: Create a resource group The first step is to create a resource group where the Azure Elastic deployment will be created. You can create a resource group using the following command:

az group create --name <resource-group-name> --location <location>

Replace <resource-group-name> with the name of your resource group and <location> with the Azure region where you want to create the resource group.

Step 2: Create an Azure Elastic deployment To create an Azure Elastic deployment, you can use the following command:

az elastic create --name <deployment-name> --resource-group <resource-group-name> --location <location> --version <version>

Replace <deployment-name> with the name of your Azure Elastic deployment, <resource-group-name> with the name of the resource group you created in step 1, <location> with the Azure region where you want to create the deployment, and <version> with the version of Elastic you want to use (for example, 7.10.2).

Step 3: Configure the Azure Elastic deployment After creating the Azure Elastic deployment, you need to configure it. You can use the following command to configure the deployment:

az elastic update --name <deployment-name> --resource-group <resource-group-name> --set properties.<property-name>=<property-value>

Replace <deployment-name> with the name of your Azure Elastic deployment, <resource-group-name> with the name of the resource group you created in step 1, <property-name> with the name of the property you want to configure (for example, nodeCount or dataNodesSize), and <property-value> with the value of the property you want to set.

Step 4: Scale the Azure Elastic deployment If you need to scale your Azure Elastic deployment, you can use the following command:

az elastic update --name <deployment-name> --resource-group <resource-group-name> --set properties.nodeCount=<node-count>

Replace <deployment-name> with the name of your Azure Elastic deployment, <resource-group-name> with the name of the resource group you created in step 1, and <node-count> with the number of nodes you want to use.

Step 5: Delete the Azure Elastic deployment If you no longer need your Azure Elastic deployment, you can use the following command to delete it:

az elastic delete --name <deployment-name> --resource-group <resource-group-name>

Replace <deployment-name> with the name of your Azure Elastic deployment, and <resource-group-name> with the name of the resource group you created in step 1.

That’s it! With these commands, you can create, configure, scale, and delete an Azure Elastic deployment using the Azure CLI.