Deploying Azure Data Factory using ARM Templates

Question

I'm trying to deploy an Azure Data Factory service using Azure Resource Manager Templates. So far I was able to create the Data Factory itself but I couldn't add any Linked Service, Pipeline or Dataset to it using this approach. Since there is no example of the Data Factory template available, I created mine based on the REST API documentation. The following is the Template I was trying to implement, but a "Bad Request" is returned by the server.

{
   "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
   "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
   "parameters": {
     "siteName": {
       "type": "string"
     }
   },
   "resources": [
     {
        "apiVersion": "2015-05-01-preview",
        "type": "Microsoft.DataFactory/datafactories",
        "name": "teststoragedatafactory",
        "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
        "resources": [
            {
                "apiVersion": "2015-05-01-preview",
                "type": "linkedservices",
                "name": "mylinkedservice",
                "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
                "dependsOn": [
                       "/subscriptions/xxx/resourceGroups/TestARMTemplate/providers/Microsoft.DataFactory/datafactories/teststoragedatafactory"
                ],
                "properties":
                {
                    "type": "AzureStorageLinkedService",
                    "description": "",
                    "connectionString": "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=xxx;AccountKey=xxx"
                }
            }
        ]
     }
   ]
}

According to the information I could get from the log, the request to the API is performed, and the endpoint seems to be correct. However there seems to be a problem with the request payload.

Have any of you some experience using ARM Templates to deploy Data Factory services? It is possible to create a linked service using this approach? Is there any way to see the Request used to create the linked service?

Thank you very much for your help!

Javi

Answer 1

You can find an example of a template creating a data factory account and simple pipeline in the azure quickstart template gallery