Renaming existing Azure Data Factory

Question

I would like to move my existing Azure Data Factory from one resource group to another but with new name.

Is there a way to change ADF name before moving or post moving. This is required to adhere to the azure resource naming policy enforced at account level.

Answer 1

I don't think it is possible to rename an existing Azure Data Factory.

However an alternate solution would be to copy or clone an Azure Data Factory. You can find more information about copy/clone Azure Data Factory here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/copy-clone-data-factory.

One of the use cases mentioned in this link is exactly that:

Renaming resources. Azure doesn't support renaming resources. If you want to rename a data factory, you can clone the data factory with a different name, and then delete the existing one.

Answer 2

Just to add to existing answers: that is not true or not entirely true. ARM supports renaming resources (just create an application insights resource and test that). But the resource providers (most of them anyway) dont support that.

Azure Data Factory doesnt support renames.