You're reading from Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide A hands-on reference guide to developing your data engineering skills and preparing for the DP-203 exam

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801816069

Length 574 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Big Data

Author (1):

Newton Alex

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Azure Basics

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Azure Basics FREE CHAPTER

3. Part 2: Data Storage

4. Chapter 2: Designing a Data Storage Structure

5. Chapter 3: Designing a Partition Strategy

6. Chapter 4: Designing the Serving Layer

7. Chapter 5: Implementing Physical Data Storage Structures

8. Chapter 6: Implementing Logical Data Structures

9. Chapter 7: Implementing the Serving Layer

10. Part 3: Design and Develop Data Processing (25-30%)

11. Chapter 8: Ingesting and Transforming Data

12. Chapter 9: Designing and Developing a Batch Processing Solution

13. Chapter 10: Designing and Developing a Stream Processing Solution

14. Chapter 11: Managing Batches and Pipelines

15. Part 4: Design and Implement Data Security (10-15%)

16. Chapter 12: Designing Security for Data Policies and Standards

17. Part 5: Monitor and Optimize Data Storage and Data Processing (10-15%)

18. Chapter 13: Monitoring Data Storage and Data Processing

19. Chapter 14: Optimizing and Troubleshooting Data Storage and Data Processing

20. Part 6: Practice Exercises

21. Chapter 15: Sample Questions with Solutions

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Scheduling and monitoring pipeline tests

In Chapter 11, Managing Batches and Pipelines, we briefly introduced Azure DevOps for version control. Azure DevOps provides another feature called Azure Pipelines, which can be used to create CI/CD pipelines to deploy ADF. If you are not aware of CI/CD, it is a method of continuously testing and deploying applications to the production environment in an automated manner. In this section, we will look into how to create, schedule, and monitor a CI/CD pipeline.

Note

As of writing this book, Azure DevOps Pipelines support for Synapse Pipelines was not available. It is only available for ADF.

Here are the high-level steps to create a CI/CD pipeline using Azure pipelines:

Select Azure DevOps from the Azure portal. On the Azure DevOps page, select Releases under Pipelines and click the New Pipeline button. This will take you to a new screen, shown in the following screenshot. Choose the Empty job option:

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