Release Azure Data Factory project using VSTS Release

Question

I want to create an Azure Data Factory project in Visual Studio rather than create an Azure Data Factory directly in the Azure portal. The reason why is that I wish to have

Answer 1

You can deploy Azure Data Factory using PowerShell.

1. Add Azure PowerShell step/task to build/release definition
2. Simple script:

Code:

foreach($file in Get-ChildItem "[ProjectFolder]" -filter "LinkedService*")
{
  New-AzureRmDataFactoryLinkedService -ResourceGroupName "ADF" -DataFactoryName "SampleFactory" -Name $file.BaseName -File $file.FullName -Force | Format-List
}
foreach($file in Get-ChildItem "[ProjectFolder]" -filter "DataSet*")
{
 New-AzureRmDataFactoryDataset -ResourceGroupName "ADF" -DataFactoryName "SampleFactory" -Name $file.BaseName -File $file.FullName -Force | Format-List
}
foreach($file in Get-ChildItem "[ProjectFolder]" -filter "Pipeline*")
{
 New-AzureRmDataFactoryPipeline -ResourceGroupName "ADF" -DataFactoryName "SampleFactory" -Name $file.BaseName -File $file.FullName -Force | Format-List
}

More information, you can refer to this article: Deploy Azure Data Factory using PowerShell.