Supported Deployment Scenarios for Azure
This section describes supported deployment scenarios for Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Edition on customer-managed Azure infrastructure.
Azure Deployment Scenarios
The following are the Azure deployment scenarios.
Deployment Scenario | Trifacta node installation | Base Storage Layer | Storage - WASB | Storage - ADLS Gen1/Gen2 | Storage - Azure SQL Database | Storage - SQL DW | Cluster |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Editioninstall for WASB | Azure | WASB | read/write | read only | read | read/write | Azure Databricks |
Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Editioninstall for ADLS Gen1 | Azure | HDFS | read only | read/write | read | read/write | Azure Databricks |
Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Editioninstall for ADLS Gen2 | Azure | ABFSS | read only |
| read | read/write | Azure Databricks |
Legend and Notes:
Column | Notes |
|---|---|
Deployment Scenario | Description of the Azure-connected deployment |
Trifacta nodeinstallation | Location where the Trifacta node is installed in this scenario. |
Base Storage Layer | When the Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform is first installed, the base storage layer must be set. Note After you have begun using the product, you cannot change the base storage layer. |
Storage - WASB | For read/write access to WASB, the base storage layer must be set to WASB. |
Storage - ADLS Gen1 | For read/write access to ADLS Gen1, the base storage layer must be set to HDFS. |
Storage - ADLS Gen2 | For read/write access to ADLS Gen2, the base storage layer must be set to ABFSS. |
Storage - Azure SQL Database | For Azure installs, you can optionally create a connection to an Azure SQL Database instance. |
Storage - SQL DW | For Azure installs, you can optionally create a connection to an Azure-hosted instance of SQL DW. |
Cluster | List of Hadoop cluster types that are supported for integration and job execution at scale.
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Azure Installations
For more information, see Install for Azure in the Install Guide.
Azure Integrations
The following table describes the different Azure components that can host or integrate with the Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform. Combinations of one or more of these items constitute one of the deployment scenarios listed in the following section.
Azure Service | Description | Base Storage Layer | Other Required Azure Services |
|---|---|---|---|
Azure Databricks | Optionally, you can integrate the Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform with an Azure Databricks cluster. | Base storage layer can be HDFS (for ADLS Gen1), ABFSS (for ADLS Gen2), or WASB. | |
WASB | Windows Azure Storage Blobs (WASB) extends HDFS to enable access to storage blobs that have not been deployed into the cluster. | Base Storage Layer = WASB | Azure Databricks Key Vault |
ADLS Gen1 | Active Data Lake Store (ADLS) provides a highly scalable file-based storage system within the cluster. | Base Storage Layer = HDFS | Azure Databricks Key Vault |
ADLS Gen2 | Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a set of capabilities dedicated to big data analytics, built on Azure Blob storage. | Base Storage Layer = ABFSS | Azure Databricks Key Vault |
The following database connections are optional.
Database Name | Description |
|---|---|
Hive | Note Access to Hive is not supported on Azure Databricks. |
SQL DW | You can read from and write to SQL Data Warehouse, a scalable data warehouse solution for Azure. |
Azure SQL Database | You can read from Azure SQL Database, a SQL Server variant for Azure. |