Renaming existing Azure Data Factory

Question

I would like to move my existing Azure Data Factory from one resource group to another but with new name.

Is there a way to change ADF name before moving or post moving. This is required to adhere to the azure resource naming policy enforced at account level.

Answer 1

If you have not done so already add your current Data Factory to Git Repo eg MyOldDataFactory. Clone the repo to a new repo myNewDataFactory Create a new DataFactory with the correct name where ever you need it and hook it up to the cloned Git Repo myNewDataFactory repo.

You will need to fix all the links to Key Vaults and Shared Integration services etc but at least you will get all of your code and changes you make to fix your New Data Factory are save in your new repo and do not corrupt your old Git repo or old Data Factory.

Answer 2

Just to add to existing answers: that is not true or not entirely true. ARM supports renaming resources (just create an application insights resource and test that). But the resource providers (most of them anyway) dont support that.

Azure Data Factory doesnt support renames.

Answer 3

You can't change the unique name given to an Azure resource, though you can move something to a different resource group.

To get a new name, you'd need to redeploy your Data Factory assets (pipelines, etc) to a new Azure Data Factory.

Answer 4

I don't think it is possible to rename an existing Azure Data Factory.

However an alternate solution would be to copy or clone an Azure Data Factory. You can find more information about copy/clone Azure Data Factory here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/copy-clone-data-factory.

One of the use cases mentioned in this link is exactly that:

Renaming resources. Azure doesn't support renaming resources. If you want to rename a data factory, you can clone the data factory with a different name, and then delete the existing one.