Purpose of Linked Service in Data Factory

Answer:

Linked services provided the external resources connectivity information to Data Factory . It serves two main purpose:

a) To represent a data store
b) To represent a compute resource

A typical linked service for Azure Storage is

{

    "name": "AzureStorageLinkedService",

    "properties": {

        "type": "AzureStorage",

        "description": "",

        "typeProperties": {

            "connectionString": "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=<accountname>;AccountKey=<accountkey>"

        }

    }