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Azure Databricks Cookbook

By : Phani Raj, Vinod Jaiswal
Book Image

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)

How to integrate Azure DevOps with an Azure Databricks notebook

Nowadays, DevOps is an integral part of any project and is heavily used for deploying the resources and artifacts to various environments apart from other services and features that Azure DevOps provides. Integrating Azure DevOps with Azure Databricks helps teams and organizations to source control the notebooks that can be used for collaborations and this enables the enterprise practice of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for Azure Databricks resources and notebooks. In this recipe, you will learn how to integrate Azure DevOps with Azure Databricks.

Getting ready

Before starting with this recipe, you need to ensure that you have the resources created as mentioned in the Technical requirements section of the current chapter.

The Azure DevOps Services organization must be linked to the same Azure AD tenant that the Azure Databricks resource is part of. You need to set the Gitprovider to Azure DevOps...