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Azure Data Factory Cookbook

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

Getting ready for the CI/CD of ADF

CD includes the deployment of ADF pipelines between different environments, that is, development, testing, and production. The best practice and most secure way of configuring your pipelines in the CI/CD process is using Azure Key Vault (AKV) instead of a connection string. In this chapter, you will learn what you need to set up before creating a CD process and how to establish AKV and connect it with ADF and an Azure storage account.

Getting ready

Before we start, please ensure that you have an Azure license and are familiar with the basics of Azure resources such as the Azure portal, creating and deleting Azure resources, and creating pipelines in ADF.

How to do it...

In this section, we are going to create and set up two resource groups – development (DEV) and testing (UAT). Inside of each resource group, we'll create access policies, and secrets on ADF, an Azure storage account, and AKV:

  1. You need to have created...