Drop synapse artifacts before deployment from Azure DevOps

Question

Greetings!!!

We have published few synapse artifacts long back to one of our workspaces and since the business requirements have changed and those artifacts are now obsolete. We have now developed new pipelines, triggers, linked services, datasets, notebooks per the latest requirement. Now, we would like to repurpose this synapse workspace for this project and we do not want to manually go in and delete each artifact instead have it automated. The publish of artifacts happens in the yaml file using the Azure DevOps CICD pipeline, and prior to the publish we would like to add the step to drop existing artifacts.

yaml:

            - task: Synapse workspace deployment@2
              inputs:
                azureSubscription: '$(Subscription)'
                ResourceGroupName: '$(ResourceGroupName)'
                TargetWorkspaceName: '$(WorkspaceName)'
				ArtifactsFolder: '$(ArtifactsFolder)'

Could you please guide me on how best to accomplish this?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi @Raj D ,

Thanks for using Microsoft Q&A forum and posting your query.

When configuring the Synapse Workspace Deployment task, make sure you select the Delete Artifacts not in template option, and any artifact in the target workspace that does not belong to the ARM template generate from the source, will be automatically deleted.

Hope this helps.

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