Deploying an Azure Databricks service using an Azure DevOps release pipeline

Azure DevOps release pipelines can be used to automate the process of Azure resource deployment to different environments. In this recipe, you will learn how to deploy Azure Databricks to a specific resource group in a subscription. Knowing this process will not only help you to deploy Azure Databricks services but can also be used to deploy other Azure resources as well.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will be using ARM templates to deploy Azure Databricks resources from Azure DevOps pipelines. To use the ARM templates in the Azure DevOps release pipeline, you will have to check in the ARM JSON files. You can download the JSON files from the following link: https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/quickstarts/microsoft.databricks/databricks-workspace.

The following is a screenshot of the folder in the Azure DevOps repo where we have checked in the JSON files:

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