I am very new to Azure. I have an Azure for Students subscription and I'm trying to create an Apache Kafka cluster using Azure HDInsight. I selected West Europe as my region. I'm using this resource as a guide: https://lenadroid.github.io/posts/kafka-hdinsight-and-spark-databricks.html
The first step was to create a resource group, which I managed to do. The next step is to deploy is, which consistently fails. The error is there are not enough cores: 26 cores are required, but 0 are available.
{
"status":"Failed",
"error":
{
"code":"DeploymentFailed",
"message":"At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/DeployOperations for usage details.",
"details":[
{
"code":"BadRequest",
"message":"{\r\n \"code\": \"BadRequest\",\r\n \"message\": \"User SubscriptionId '29bb2797-a6e9-4412-90da-52863c7579ad' does not have cores left to create resource 'kafka-kafkaclustertest1'. Required: 26, Available: 0.\"\r\n}"}
]
}
}
Looking at Usage + quotas, I'm at 100% usage of Network Watchers (1 out of 1). I tried disabling the Network Watcher to no avail. My subscription is not eligible for a quota increase.
My questions are:
- Does Azure for Students, with its $100 credit, support the services I will need: Resource Group, Virtual Networks, HDInsight?
- If yes, do I have to configure/activate my subscription credit somehow?
- Could the issue be related to the region? How do I make sure West Europe has enough available cores? Is it reasonable to try different regions?
- Can I configure my Kafka resource group to requires less cores?
- Are there easier ways to deploy a Kafka cluster, perhaps on other cloud providers?
I would very much appreciate some guidance -- thanks!
Reason: With an Azure Student subscription, you will initially be able to access only Azure services that are available with a free tier of service use.
For more limitations, refer to the below links:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0144p/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0003p/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0023p/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/hdinsight/