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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
This post covers how to operationalize configuration-based deployments to work with Microsoft Fabric and Azure DevOps. This feature is now generally available in the latest fabric-cicd release. Microsoft has officially announced official support for Microsoft fabric-cicd tool. With that news, this feels like the perfect time to follow up on the post read by thousands … Read more
This post covers how I ended up updating Microsoft Fabric notebook cells at build time with Azure Pipelines. Which is the service that manages your pipelines in Azure DevOps. I decided to share this to be transparent about what happened and how I resolved the issue. Plus, share how you can directly edit notebook cells … Read more
This post shows how you can automate FUAM deployments and updates with Azure DevOps. Including the creation of service connections, download of relevant items and relevant notebooks run. For those yet to discover FUAM, FUAM stands for Fabric Unified Admin Monitoring and is a popular monitoring solution developed by two Microsoft employees. You deploy FUAM … Read more
This post is a back-to-basics guide that shows three approaches to preparing a Git repository for Microsoft Fabric Git integration. In other words, prepare a repository in either Azure DevOps or GitHub in order to connect it to a Microsoft Fabric workspace. To manage expectations, this post is aimed at those with little or no … Read more
This post is a back-to-basics Git introduction for Microsoft Fabric enthusiasts. Because I am very aware a lot of Microsoft Fabric enthusiasts are from different backgrounds. Which means that Git may not be their focus area. To manage expectations, this post is aimed at those with little or no experience of Git. However, those with … Read more
Recently I tested the new deployment method for the Fabric Accelerator. Which is the metadata driven framework accelerator solution for Microsoft Fabric developed by Benny Austin. Because it is a popular solution I decided to share my results in this post. Install with the new deployment method for Fabric accelerator I looked to deploy fabric … 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