Implementing control flow activities – Lookup and If activities

In this recipe, we'll be implementing Lookup and If control flow activities. The Lookup activity, as the name suggests, is used to get a value or an array of values from a given dataset. The If activity, as the name suggests, is used to run tasks based on whether a given condition is true or false.

Getting ready

Before you start, execute the following steps:

1. Log into Azure from PowerShell. To do this, execute the following command and follow the instructions to log into Azure:

   Connect-AzAccount

2. Open https://portal.azure.com and log in using your Azure credentials.
3. Create the pipeline as specified in the previous recipe, if not already created.

How to do it…

In the previous recipe, we created a pipeline to copy files from one data lake store directory to another. In this recipe, we'll create a new pipeline to execute the previous pipeline (Pipeline-Controlflow-Activities...