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. AKV is utilized in Azure Data Factory pipelines for CD because it provides a highly secure and centrally managed solution for storing and safeguarding sensitive information such as connection strings, passwords, and authentication tokens. It ensures controlled access, facilitates secret rotation, enhances auditing capabilities, and seamlessly integrates with ADF, making it the best practice for securing pipelines in the CD process.

In this recipe, 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 subscription...