@Eyad Garelnabi: There is a document called "Ambari Upgrade Best Practices," http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.5.3/bk_ambari-upgrade-best-practices/content/index.html, that was developed with folks in the field, and the issues that many of our customers face. It's a relatively new document, and I hope you will find it useful. ... View more

A new guide for deploying HDP on Azure was recently released. See http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.4.0/bk_HDP_AzureSetup/content/ch_HDP_AzureSetup.html. ... View more