Understanding the CI/CD process for Azure Databricks
In this recipe, we will learn what the advantage is of using the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process while working with Azure Databricks.
CI/CD is a method to frequently integrate code changes with a repository and deploy them to other environments. It offers an automated way of integrating, testing, and deploying code changes. CI in Azure Databricks enables developers to regularly build, test, and merge code changes to a shared repository. It's a solution for the very common problem of having multiple developers working on the same code or having multiple branches that could cause a conflict with each other in the software development life cycle.
CD refers to continuous delivery and/or continuous deployment. Continuous delivery means developers' changes are automatically tested and merged or uploaded to a repository such as Azure DevOps or Git. From there, changes can be deployed to other...