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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)

Deploying an Azure Databricks service using an Azure DevOps release pipeline

Azure DevOps release pipelines can be used to automate the process of Azure resource deployment to different environments. In this recipe, you will learn how to deploy Azure Databricks to a specific resource group in a subscription. Knowing this process will not only help you to deploy Azure Databricks services but can also be used to deploy other Azure resources as well.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will be using ARM templates to deploy Azure Databricks resources from Azure DevOps pipelines. To use the ARM templates in the Azure DevOps release pipeline, you will have to check in the ARM JSON files. You can download the JSON files from the following link: https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/quickstarts/microsoft.databricks/databricks-workspace.

The following is a screenshot of the folder in the Azure DevOps repo where we have checked in the JSON files:

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