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+Azure Cloud Plugin for ElasticSearch
+====================================
+
+The Azure Cloud plugin allows to use Azure API for the unicast discovery mechanism.
+
+In order to install the plugin, simply run: `bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/1.0.0`.
+
+    -----------------------------------------
+    | Azure Cloud Plugin | ElasticSearch    |
+    -----------------------------------------
+    | master             | 0.90 -> master   |
+    -----------------------------------------
+    | 1.0.0              | 0.20.6           |
+    -----------------------------------------
+
+
+Azure Virtual Machine Discovery
+-------------------------------
+
+Azure VM discovery allows to use the azure APIs to perform automatic discovery (similar to multicast in non hostile
+multicast environments). Here is a simple sample configuration:
+
+```
+    cloud:
+        azure:
+            private_key: /path/to/private.key
+            certificate: /path/to/azure.certficate
+            password: your_password_for_pk
+            subscription_id: your_azure_subscription_id
+    discovery:
+            type: azure
+```
+
+How to start
+------------
+
+Short story:
+
+    * Create Azure instances
+    * Open 9300 port
+    * Install Elasticsearch
+    * Install Azure plugin
+    * Modify `elasticsearch.yml` file
+    * Start Elasticsearch
+
+Long story:
+
+    See [tutorial](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/2013/04/02/elasticsearch-on-azure/).
+
+License
+-------
+
+    This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below.
+
+    Copyright 2009-2012 Shay Banon and ElasticSearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org>
+
+    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
+    use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+    the License at
+
+        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
+    the License.