This advanced template creates a Multi VM MapR Cluster, complete with MapR Community Edition licensing. Users can select which instance types to use; storage for each node is currently defined in the template itself (4 1TB volumes per node).

The Control System interface to the cluster will be available at https://[cluster_node_0]:8443

For more details on the template itself and customizing it to your needs, please reference DEVELOPERS.txt in this repository.

The template deployment is supported via the Azure Command Line utility (available from http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/xplat-cli/#configure ).

After installing that utility and authenticating to the Azure environment, you can take the following steps to deploy a cluster from the command line :

1. Clone the default parameters file (azuredeploy-parameters.json)
2. Update the new parameter file, ap.json, with your desired settings for clusterName and adminPassword
3. Launch a resource group and deploy the MapR software

   azure group create "newgroup" "West US" -f azuredeploy.json -d MapRtest -e ap.json