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In this post I show how you can use Managed DevOps Pools for Microsoft Fabric deployments. Which can be beneficial for a variety of reasons, including the ability to access secure Azure Key Vaults with firewall enabled. Like in the below diagram. This post is based on my previous post where I showed how to … Read more
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
This post covers testing fab deploy with the new Fabric automation tools Azure DevOps extension. Plus, I show how you can authenticate with the new Azure Devops extension in various different ways. Since it has just been released there are a few quirks with the new extension. In fact, some there are already some GitHub … Read more
This post covers using fab deploy in Azure DevOps for Microsoft Fabric deployments based on YAML pipelines. In addition, this post shows how you can perform initial tests locally and introduces some AI concepts. Plus, this post shares plenty of links and advice. You can find an example to accompany this post in the ‘create-genworkspace-fabric-cli.yml‘ … Read more
This post shows YAML Pipeline examples for the “Deploy Microsoft Fabric items with fabric-cicd” Azure DevOps extension. Which is the Azure DevOps extension that I published last month and is free for everybody to work with within Azure DevOps. You can find additional YAML pipelines examples in my ADO-deploy-fabric-items-task-examples repository. You can a guide on … 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 covers how you can simplify Microsoft Fabric deployments with “Deploy Microsoft Fabric items with fabric-cicd”. Which is an Azure DevOps extension that I recently published. To manage expectations, this post shows how to start working with the extension and its associated task within the GUI-based classic release pipelines in Azure DevOps. Like in … Read more
This post covers how to orchestrate configuration-based deployments to Microsoft Fabric with YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps. This feature is now generally available in the latest fabric-cicd release. In my previous post I showed you how to operationalize configuration-based deployments to work with Microsoft Fabric and the Classic Pipelines in Azure DevOps. Now that Microsoft … Read more