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Azure Data Factory Cookbook

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Foshin, Roman Storchak, Xenia Ireton
Book Image

Azure Data Factory Cookbook

By: Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Foshin, Roman Storchak, Xenia Ireton

Overview of this book

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a modern data integration tool available on Microsoft Azure. This Azure Data Factory Cookbook helps you get up and running by showing you how to create and execute your first job in ADF. You’ll learn how to branch and chain activities, create custom activities, and schedule pipelines. This book will help you to discover the benefits of cloud data warehousing, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage, which are frequently used for big data analytics. With practical recipes, you’ll learn how to actively engage with analytical tools from Azure Data Services and leverage your on-premise infrastructure with cloud-native tools to get relevant business insights. As you advance, you’ll be able to integrate the most commonly used Azure Services into ADF and understand how Azure services can be useful in designing ETL pipelines. The book will take you through the common errors that you may encounter while working with ADF and show you how to use the Azure portal to monitor pipelines. You’ll also understand error messages and resolve problems in connectors and data flows with the debugging capabilities of ADF. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use ADF as the main ETL and orchestration tool for your data warehouse or data platform projects.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Setting up an HDInsight cluster

HDInsight is a comprehensive solution based on a diverse list of open source platforms. It includes Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache HBase, Apache Hive, Apache Storm, and so on. Solutions based on HDInsight can be integrated with ADF, Azure Data Lake, Cosmos DB, and so on.

In this section, we will set up the HDInsight service, build a basic pipeline, and deploy it to ADF.

Getting ready

Before getting started with the recipe, log in to your Microsoft Azure account.

We assume you have a pre-configured resource group and storage account with Azure Data Lake Gen2.

How to do it…

We will go through the process of creating an HDInsight cluster using the Azure portal and its web interface. Follow these instructions:

  1. Create a user-assigned managed identity. We will need it in the next step, to set up HDInsight cluster access to Data Lake v2. Find Managed Identities in Azure and click +Add.
  2. Fill in the appropriate...