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Connect to Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Let's configure the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 connection properties to connect to Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

Before you begin

Before you get started, you'll need to get information from your Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account based on the authentication type that you want to configure.
Check out Prepare for authentication to learn more about the authentication prerequisites.

Connection details

The following table describes the basic connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Use Secret Vault
Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization.
This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization.
This property is not supported by Data Ingestion and Replication.
When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured.
For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select a Secure Agent, Hosted Agent, or serverless runtime environment.
Do not use a Hosted Agent if you use the connection in mappings in advanced mode.
You cannot run an application ingestion and replication task, database ingestion and replication task or streaming ingestion and replication task on a Hosted Agent or serverless runtime environment.
Account Name
Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account name or the service name.
File System Name
The name of the file system in the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account.
Directory Path
The path of a directory without the file system name.
You can select from the following directory structures:
  • - / for root directory
  • - /dir1
  • - dir1/dir2
Default is /.

Authentication types

You can select service principal authentication, shared key authentication, and managed identity authentication to access the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account.
Note: Data Ingestion and Replication supports managed identity authentication. However, Streaming Ingestion and Replication does not support shared key authentication or managed identity authentication.
Select your preferred authentication type and then configure the authentication-specific parameters.

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