Connecting AMLS to ADF

ADF is a code-free data orchestration and transformation tool. With it, you can create ADF pipelines that can copy data into Azure, transform data, run ML pipelines, and push data back onto certain on-premise databases and file shares. It's incredibly easy to make and schedule ADF pipelines using ADF's code-free pipeline editing tool. As you create an ADF pipeline with the drag and drop interface, you're actually writing JSON code, which ADF uses to execute jobs.

Tip

Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Azure's premier data warehousing and integrated analytics service, also has a feature nearly identical to ADF pipelines: Azure Synapse pipelines. Anything that you do in this chapter with ADF pipelines you can also achieve with Azure Synapse pipelines using a very similar interface.

In this section, you will create an ADF resource and connect it to AMLS. You will do this using a linked service, an object similar to a connection string...