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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)

Using GitHub for Azure Databricks notebook version control

Apart from using Azure DevOps for version control of your Azure Databricks notebooks, you can also use GitHub. Using a specific type of version control depends upon the organizational, project, and business needs. In this recipe, you will learn how to integrate a GitHub repository with Azure Databricks to version control your notebooks.

Getting ready

Before starting with this recipe, you need to ensure that you have generated a personal access token, which is used for authentication to GitHub. To generate a personal access token, go through the steps mentioned at the following link: https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token.

You need to only select the repo scope as shown in the following screenshot; other scopes are not required before generating the token:

Figure 9.14 – GitHub Personal access...