Overview

Working with Databricks all begins from the Microsoft Azure Homepage. You can sign into this home page from here.

Microsoft Azure

Once you sign-in, you will land into a webpage similar to this.

Microsoft Azure landing

Click on the ns-ii-tech-dev-db-workspace Azure databricks service. It should bring the below interface.

Dev workspace

If you click on the Launch workspace button, and provided you have the right credentials, it will take you to your Azure Databricks workspace. This is where you will be performing most of your data science and Machine Learning (ML) operations!

Azure Databricks workspace

Terminology

Azure storage account

An Azure storage account contains all of your Azure storage data objects: blobs, files, queues, and tables. The storage account provides a unique namespace for your Azure Storage data that is accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPs.

Azure Databricks Service

This is the analytics platform powered by Apache Spark, the creators of Databricks, integrated with Azure services.

Resource group

A container in Resource Manage that holds related resources for an application. The resource group can include all of the resources for an application, or only those resources that are logically grouped together.

Subscription

A customer’s agreement with Microsoft that enables them to obtain Azure services

The above are some of the terminologies you will come across when you open the home page.


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