Getting ready for the CI/CD of ADF
CD includes the deployment of ADF pipelines between different environments, that is, development, testing, and production. The best practice and most secure way of configuring your pipelines in the CI/CD process is using Azure Key Vault (AKV) instead of a connection string. In this chapter, you will learn what you need to set up before creating a CD process and how to establish AKV and connect it with ADF and an Azure storage account.
Getting ready
Before we start, please ensure that you have an Azure license and are familiar with the basics of Azure resources such as the Azure portal, creating and deleting Azure resources, and creating pipelines in ADF.
How to do it...
In this section, we are going to create and set up two resource groups – development (DEV
) and testing (UAT
). Inside of each resource group, we'll create access policies, and secrets on ADF, an Azure storage account, and AKV:
- You need to have created...