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This post covers how you can perform CI/CD for Fabric apps with Azure DevOps. In order to deploy efficiently with a fully working YAML pipeline. Like in the below diagram. Just to clarify, Fabric apps were announced at Microsoft Build two weeks ago. Idea is that you work with the developer toolkit called Rayfin to … Read more
This post shows how you can perform Fabric CI/CD securely in GitHub with OpenID Connect and fab deploy. As visualized below. To clarify, OpenID Connect (OIDC) extends OAuth 2.0 to provide identity verification and allows GitHub Actions to securely authenticate to cloud providers using short-lived tokens instead of stored secrets. Fab deploy is a new … Read more
This post covers one way you can simplify CI/CD for Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric with the fab deploy command in Azure DevOps. I often get asked if CI/CD for Real-Time Intelligence works. Since it is not a topic that gets discussed often. So I decided to show CI/CD working for Real-Time Intelligence and how … Read more
Within this post I share my initial thoughts about some of the CI/CD announcements at FabCon. I decided to cover a few since there were so many fantastic announcements during the event. In addition, I decided to focus on the Fabric related announcements even though the SQL-based SQLCon took place at the same time. For … Read more
This post shows how you can modernize Microsoft Fabric CI/CD using the Azure DevOps MCP Server. By showing examples of how you can use natural language when working with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code to perform a variety of tasks you tend to perform manually in Azure DevOps. Currently there is a lot more … Read more
I decided to share my thoughts about the perfect combination of Azure DevOps services for an end-to-end Microsoft Fabric CI/CD story. Since the topic came up in a forum recently. Before I go any further, I will explain what I mean by Azure Devops services. Even though a lot of people think of Azure DevOps … Read more
In this post I cover managing Microsoft Fabric connections with Fabric CLI when performing CI/CD. To clarify, I mean the Microsoft Fabric connections that you work with when you select “Manage connections and gateways” in the settings menu in Microsoft Fabric. Like in the below image. When I say the Fabric CLI I mean the … Read more
In this post I want to share my thoughts about some of the Microsoft Fabric CI/CD related announcements during FabCon. To clarify, when I say FabCon I mean the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference. Which took place last week in Las Vegas. In reality, there were a lot of great announcements during the Microsoft Fabric Community … Read more
For this months T-SQL Tuesday contribution I cover how you can improve your Data Platform integrity with CI/CD practices. Before I go any further, I want to thank Rob Farley who hosts this months T-SQL Tuesday. Rob invites us all to cover the topic of integrity. You can read the original invitation by clicking on … Read more
In this post I cover two ways to perform CI/CD for SQL databases in Fabric using GitHub Actions. By showing two different ways you can create the dacpac file with GitHub Actions. One way with a database project and another by directly extracting the schema of the database into a dacpac file. As per the … Read more