deploy-install-azdata.md

title	Install Azure Data CLI (azdata)
description	Learn how to install the Azure Data CLI azdata) tool.
author	MikeRayMSFT
ms.author	mikeray
ms.reviewer	mihaelab
ms.date	01/07/2020
ms.prod	sql
ms.topic	conceptual
ms.custom	intro-installation

Install [!INCLUDE azure-data-cli-azdata]

[!INCLUDEazdata]

[!INCLUDE azure-data-cli-azdata] is a command-line utility written in Python to bootstrap and manage the data services via REST APIs.

Find latest version

The list of files for the latest version is always available at https://aka.ms/azdata.

To find your installed version and see if you need to update, run azdata --version.

OS specific instructions

• Install on Windows
• Install on macOS
• Install on Linux or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
  • Install with apt on Debian or Ubuntu
  • Install with yum on RHEL, or CentOS
  • Install with Zypper on openSUSE or SLE
  • Install from script

[!INCLUDE azdata-package-installation-remove-pip-install]

Next steps

Use azdata with Big Data Clusters, see [What are [!INCLUDEbig-data-clusters-2019]?](../../big-data-cluster/big-data-cluster-overview.md).