Chapter 6: Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a de facto ETL/ELT tool in Azure. The service is very popular for dealing with data load and transformations. This chapter will show you how Data Factory can be used as a central orchestration service and how some of its toolset can be used to transform data.
We will cover the following Azure Data Factory recipes in this chapter:
- Data factory creation
- Copying data from the internet
- Moving and transforming data
- Triggering and monitoring our pipeline
Let's begin by creating our data factory.