Technical requirements
There are not too many technical requirements! All that you will require in order to follow this chapter is the following:
- An Azure subscription, where you have at least contributor rights or you are the owner.
- Your Synapse workspace or the right to provision an Azure Data Factory service.
- An Azure DevOps Git or GitHub account. This is optional, required only if you want to integrate your data factory with a DevOps repository.
- Azure Storage Explorer: You will need this tool to interact with your data lake, for example. Please download it from here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/.
- Azure Data Lake Storage and two folders, one for the source and one for a target. Refer to Chapter 3, Understanding the Data Lake Storage Layer, for a refresher.
- An arbitrary file that you will upload to your source folder and use in your first copy job.
- Access to an Azure DevOps or GitHub repository.