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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/write to ADLS Gen2

  • read only to ADLS Gen1

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.

  • The Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform can integrate with at most one cluster. It cannot integrate with two different clusters at the same time.

  • Smaller jobs can be executed on the Trifacta Photon running environment, which is hosted on the Trifacta node itself.

  • For more information, see Running Environment Options in the Configuration Guide.

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.