Release Pipeline - ADF deployment

Question

hi,

I would like to deploy ADF solution from DEV to UAT to PROD.

I prefer using classic ADF release pipeline in Azure devops, I would like to have an option to pick the items for deployment like pipelines, dataflows and datasets.

I do not want deploy linked services, integration runtimes, manged private endpoints, as they are created from IAC(Terraform code). Is it possible to pick deployment items?

Answer 1

Hello Santhi Dhanuskodi,

A similar ask has been discussed here

• By design, Data Factory doesn't allow cherry-picking of commits or selective publishing of resources. Publishes will include all changes made in the data factory.
  • Data factory entities depend on each other. For example, triggers depend on pipelines, and pipelines depend on datasets and other pipelines. Selective publishing of a subset of resources could lead to unexpected behaviors and errors.
  • On rare occasions when you need selective publishing, consider using a hotfix. For more information, see Hotfix production environment.

Reference document:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/continuous-integration-delivery

I hope this answers your question.

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Answer 2

We are going to use conditional deployments.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/conditional-resource-deployment

ARM templates allow you to choose deployment resources. We are going to deploy linked services, integration run times, managed private end points through IAC terra form code. So we dont want to deploy these through release pipeline.