Set-up Azure Data Factory

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It is easy to set up Azure Data Factory from within the Azure portal, you only require the following information:

  • Name: The name of the Azure Data Factory instance
  • Subscription: The subscription in which the ADF instance is created
  • Resource group: The resource group where the ADF instance will reside
  • Version: select V2 for the latest features
  • Location: The datacenter location in which the instance is stored

Enable Git provides the capability to integrate the code that you create with a Git repository enabling you to source control the code that you would create. Define the GIT url, repository name, branch name, and the root folder.

Creating an Azure Data Factory Instance

Alternatively, there are a number of different ways that you can provision the service programmatically. In this example you can see PowerShell at work to set up the environment.

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# Sign in to Azure and set the WINDOWS AZURE subscription to work with
$SubscriptionId = "add your subscription in the quotes"

Add-AzureRmAccount
Set-AzureRmContext -SubscriptionId $SubscriptionId

# register the Microsoft Azure Data Factory resource provider
Register-AzureRmResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.DataFactory

# DEFINE RESOURCE GROUP NAME AND LOCATION PARAMETERS
$resourceGroupName = "cto_ignite"
$rglocation = "West US 2"

# CREATE AZURE DATA FACTORY
New-AzureRmDataFactoryV2 -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name "ctoigniteADF" -Location $rglocation