Azure data factory

What is it

Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based ETL (Transform and Load) and data integration service

Components

pipelines

Groups of activities acting as a work-unit.

activities

On working step. Three types:

• Data movement
• Data transformation
• Control

data sets

Represents datastructure on your store

connected services

Defines the connections informations to connect to external resources.

Data flows

To implement data transformation logic without code. Dataflows are run as activities in pipelines.

integration runtimes

Are the compute resources on which compute activities run.