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Azure Databricks Cookbook

By : Phani Raj, Vinod Jaiswal
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Azure Databricks Cookbook

By: Phani Raj, Vinod Jaiswal

Overview of this book

Azure Databricks is a unified collaborative platform for performing scalable analytics in an interactive environment. The Azure Databricks Cookbook provides recipes to get hands-on with the analytics process, including ingesting data from various batch and streaming sources and building a modern data warehouse. The book starts by teaching you how to create an Azure Databricks instance within the Azure portal, Azure CLI, and ARM templates. You’ll work through clusters in Databricks and explore recipes for ingesting data from sources, including files, databases, and streaming sources such as Apache Kafka and EventHub. The book will help you explore all the features supported by Azure Databricks for building powerful end-to-end data pipelines. You'll also find out how to build a modern data warehouse by using Delta tables and Azure Synapse Analytics. Later, you’ll learn how to write ad hoc queries and extract meaningful insights from the data lake by creating visualizations and dashboards with Databricks SQL. Finally, you'll deploy and productionize a data pipeline as well as deploy notebooks and Azure Databricks service using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). By the end of this Azure book, you'll be able to use Azure Databricks to streamline different processes involved in building data-driven apps.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Creating a Databricks workspace in the Azure portal

There are multiple ways we can create an Azure Databricks service. This recipe will focus on creating the service in the Azure portal. This method is usually used for learning purposes or ad hoc requests. The preferred methods for creating services are using the Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI and ARM templates.

By the end of this recipe, you will have learned how to create an Azure Databricks service instance using the Azure portal.

Getting ready

You will need access via a subscription to the service and have a Contributor role available in it.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to create a Databricks service using the Azure portal:

  1. Log into the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and click on Create a resource. Then, search for Azure Databricks and click on Create:

    Figure 1.1 – Azure Databricks – Create button

  2. Create a new resource group (CookbookRG) or pick any existing resource group...