Niels Berglund walks us through the setup for SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters:
If you, like me, are a SQL Server guy, you are probably quite familiar with installing SQL Server instances by mounting an ISO file, and running setup. Well, you can forget all that when you deploy a SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster. The setup is all done via Python utilities, and various Docker images pulled from a private repository. So, you need Python3. On my box I have Python 3.5, and – according to Microsoft – version 3.7 also works. Make you that you have your Python installation on the path.
When you deploy you use a Python utility:
mssqlctl. To downloadmssqlctl, you need Python’s package management systempipinstalled. During installation you also need a Python HTTP library: Requests. If you do not have it you need to install it:python -m pip install requests
This isn’t available to the general public quite yet, but when it is publicly available (or if you are part of the Early Access Program), the instructions are nice and clear.