Triggering a pipeline in Azure Data Factory

An Azure Data Factory pipeline can be triggered manually, scheduled, or triggered by an event. In this recipe, we'll configure an event-based trigger to run the pipeline created in the previous recipe whenever a new file is uploaded to the data lake store.

Getting ready

Before you start, perform the following steps:

1. Log into Azure from PowerShell. To do this, execute the following command and follow the instructions to log into Azure:

   Connect-AzAccount

2. Open https://portal.azure.com and log in using your Azure credentials.
3. Create the pipeline as specified in the previous recipe, if not already created.

How to do it…

To create the trigger, perform the following steps:

1. The event trigger requires the eventgrid resource to be registered in the subscription. To do that, execute the following PowerShell command:

   Register-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.EventHub

2. In the Azure portal...