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GitHub Action for side-effect free deployment of Azure Data Factory resources

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Azure Data Factory Deploy Action

GitHub Action that performs a side-effect free deployment of Azure Data Factory entities in a Data Factory instance.

How it works

The GitHub Action uses pre and post-deployment scripts to prevent the deployment from potential side effects, such as:

  • Execution of active triggers during the deployment process that could corrupt resources relationships or have pipelines in undesired states.
  • Availability of unused resources that could bring confusion to data engineers and reduce maintainability.

Architecture Design

It is designed to run the following steps sequentially:

  1. A pre-deployment task checks for all active triggers and stop them.
  2. An ARM template deployment task is executed.
  3. A post-deployment task deletes all resources that have been removed from the ARM template (triggers, pipelines, dataflows, datasets, linked services, Integration Runtimes) and restarts the active triggers.

When to use

The action is useful on Continuous Deployment (CD) scenarios, where a step can be added in a workflow to deploy the Data Factory resources.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

If your GitHub Actions workflows are running on a self-hosted runner, ensure you have installed:

Example Usage

steps:
  - name: Login via Az module
    uses: azure/login@v1
    with:
      creds: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CREDENTIALS }}
      enable-AzPSSession: true 

  - name: Deploy resources
    uses: Azure/[email protected]
    with:
      resourceGroupName: myResourceGroup
      dataFactoryName: myDataFactory
      armTemplateFile: myArmTemplate.json
      # armTemplateParametersFile: myArmTemplateParameters.json [optional]
      # additionalParameters: 'key1=value key2=value keyN=value' [optional]
      # skipAzModuleInstallation: true [optional]

Inputs

Name Description Required Default value
resourceGroupName Data Factory resource group name true
dataFactoryName Data Factory name true
armTemplateFile Data Factory ARM template file false ARMTemplateForFactory.json
armTemplateParametersFile Data Factory ARM template parameters file false ARMTemplateParametersForFactory.json
additionalParameters Data Factory custom parameters. Key-values must be splitted by space. false
skipAzModuleInstallation Skip Az powershell module installation. false false

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