How to create linked service in Azure Data Factory

usha singh
2 min readDec 21, 2020

In this article we will learn, how can we create linked service for Azure BLOB container for Data Factory Pipeline. You should have Azure subscription. and there should be a storage account created.

1. Login to Azure portal and search for Azure Data Factory (ADF), click on Add and create a data factory. Once you are done creating, go to resource and click on “Author and Monitor tab”. It will open a new webpage with Data factory for you

2. In ADF portal: Go to manage tab à Linked Services à click on New

3. Select Azure BLOB storage and click on continue. Give name to linked service. Select the subscription under which you want to create the linked service and Storage account name from dropdown list where the source files are located. Click on test connection, once it is successful click on create.

Congratulations you have created first linked service in azure for ADF 😊

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