Deploying your features into the master branch

Now that we have covered how to publish changes from the master branch to Data Factory, we are going to look at how to deploy new branches into the master branch. There are several reasons for creating new branches. While implementing new changes to your project, it is a common practice to create a feature branch, develop your changes there, and then publish them to the master branch. Some teams working in an Agile environment can create branches per story development. Other teams may have branches per developer. In all these situations, the main purpose is to avoid breaking changes during the release into the production environment.

Getting ready

Before we start, please ensure that you have an Azure subscription and are familiar with the basics of Azure resources such as the Azure portal, creating and deleting Azure resources, and creating pipelines in ADF. Also, you will need an Azure DevOps project created and linked to your...